In this knowledge-worker age, it’s now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs – so the pressure to do well is really high.

As an entrepreneur, as an investor, I’m trying to be as educated as I can to where the progression of technological capability is going and what it does to these different categories that, me as an artist and an influencer, I can get involved and bring value.

Swimming has its educational value – mental, moral, and physical – in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.

We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 – and half the things he knows at 40 hadn’t been discovered when he was 20?

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can’t it happen to me? I’m not worried I’m young – it’s an incentive to do the best I can.

Basically, I’m one of the greatest producers ever. And I’m also one of the greatest DJs ever. And I’m also one of the best executives ever.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

In my opinion, rankings are a very fickle measurement of one’s success and it is best to not get carried away by it.

I’ve never gone into business to make money. Every Virgin product and service has been made into a reality to make a positive difference in people’s lives. And by focusing on the happiness of our customers, we have been able to build a successful group of companies.

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.

If you deserve it, go get it.

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I – if I’m not interested in something, I don’t grasp it.

From the time that ‚Nevermind‘ came out in September of 1991 to the time that Nirvana was over, it was really just a few years, and a lot happened in those few years.

Work is making a living out of being bored.

If I want to do well in racing I need to be more focused so I stopped going to school. If I wasn’t a very good driver it would not be a wise decision, but it gives me an advantage over my competitors.

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

I am no supporter of factory labor for children, but I have never joined with those who clamored against proper work of children on farms outside their school hours.

I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

What is once well done is done forever.

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It’s scary.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll be able to see farther.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other ‚studies‘ was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these ‚studies‘ are about propaganda rather than serious education.

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

All the learnin‘ my father paid for was a bit o‘ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

It’s a small percentage of people who do the 80-hour-a-week high-powered career thing, and they’re almost all men. Why? Well, men are driven by socio-economic status more than women.

There’s strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

Most people have the opportunity of a lifetime flash right in front of them, and they fail to see it. A year later, they find out about it, after everyone else got rich.

You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don’t want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you’re not performing at your best.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.

In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did biology. I wanted to do math and physics, but my father made me do chemistry because he thought there would be no jobs for mathematicians.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.

Magic has five championships. I have five championships. I’m pretty sure we both know what we’re doing.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters.

Even the best and biggest teams in the world do not reach finals of tournaments.

No pressure, no diamonds.

It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.

I try to make it look easy, but the behind-the-scenes stuff is the challenge.

I absolutely want to have a career where you make’em laugh and make’em cry. It’s all theater.

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes – ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.