Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

The thing most people don’t pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It’s 24/7.

I always thought that if I made it big or got successful at what I had started out to do, that I wanted to come back to my part of the country and do something great, something that would bring a lot of jobs into this area.

I’m selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I’m out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

Too much of what is called ‚education‘ is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

I like the city. I like the concrete. I like big business. I like being a CEO of my own company and having a lot of responsibilities. At the same time, when I can go off with a backpack or off on a surfboard or even off on a run somewhere in the woods – that’s where I’m really happy.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

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.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

There’s no better place in the world for technology start-ups than Silicon Valley; there’s such an incredible well of talent and capital and resources. The whole system is set up to foster the creation of new companies.

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

No driver is perfect.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from – and with – each other.

Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

By reading, you learn through others‘ experiences, generally, a better way to do business, especially in our line of work where the consequences of incompetence are so final for young men.

The pay is good and I can walk to work.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

You can’t score if you’re turning it over. It’s like a punt. If you go out and you punt 12 times, you’re not scoring points. That’s not good. So, when you turn the ball over and throw interceptions, you’re giving the other team more opportunities and your team less opportunities.

You learn a lot from traveling around.

It’s easier to aim to please and say what others want to hear than to form an opinion and fight for it, even if it means taking a risk or losing your job.

Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don’t have to riot.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

The redwood is the glory of the Coast Range. It extends along the western slope, in a nearly continuous belt about ten miles wide, from beyond the Oregon boundary to the south of Santa Cruz, a distance of nearly four hundred miles, and in massive, sustained grandeur and closeness of growth surpasses all the other timber woods of the world.

Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

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.

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we’ve made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be.

I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

Most of us believe, or should believe, that every child can learn, given the opportunity, but try substitute teaching just once and you will see firsthand the socioeconomic issues that distract our kids from taking advantage of that opportunity.