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.

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

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

What is easy is seldom excellent.

I got a signed document from Bullock’s saying that they had such-and-such drawings on consignment. Of course, nobody bought any of them, but otherwise, I was a big success: I had my drawings on sale at Bullock’s!

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won’t make a company successful.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don’t like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents‘ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

See, that’s why Barack’s running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly – to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American – and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college.

I’m hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

I’ve been thinking of humorous things since I was… I can’t remember when. All the way through elementary school, all the way through junior high, all the way through high school, through college and after college, I was thinking of the same kinds of things that I say in front of an audience now.

I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.

How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.

There is a heavy emphasis in Mormonism on initiative, on responsibility, on a work ethic, and on education. If you take those elements together with a free-enterprise system, you’ve got the chemistry for a lot of industry.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.

For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

Winning, to me, is easy. Winning more is the challenge.

In terms of my involvement in ‚don’t ask, don’t tell‘ and marriage equality and anti-bullying and social emotional learning in schools – these are all things that arise out of my relationship with the world and with my fans.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.

I nearly failed when Virgin was in its infancy; I nearly failed in the early 1980s, and, of course, I have nearly died more than once trying to achieve a world record for boating or ballooning. But through a combination of luck and planning, both Virgin and I are still here.

I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I’ve been working nonstop since I was 15. I don’t even know how to chill out.

It’s not ‚can‘; it’s ‚will.‘ You have to will things into fruition.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

I want to go down in the history books with what I’ve achieved.

I’ve worked with children all my life.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.

I don’t know who I touch and who I don’t. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don’t have any secrets. I don’t know the reasons I’ve been so well received.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Information is not knowledge.

I love my job, but it’s more than that: I need it.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.

I always make my dreams into goals.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

I’m turned on by guys who are cultured. That’ll keep me intrigued. They don’t have to have a single degree, but they should speak other languages or know things about other parts of the world or history or certain artists or musicians. I like to be taught. I like to sit on that side of the table.

Everyone loves a win in India. No one wants to lose a match. It is the cricketer who absorbs all the pressure.