“You can never say you have the best talent when you never had a chance to even look at 40% of the entire talent pool.” – Miles Everson

“Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain and most fools do.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.” – Henry Ford

“…allows the investor to judge the ability of companies to create lasting value and should be part of any investor’s stock selection process.” – Al Jackson Former Head of Global Equity Research, Credit Suisse First Boston

“You should learn from your competitor but never copy. Copy and you die.” – Jack Ma Founder, Alibaba

“We communicate company goals and objectives, and we don’t push things under the carpet if we’re not on target. We take responsibility for mistakes.” – Tom Golisano Founder, Paychex

“Four trends changing the world today: rate of change of acceleration, progress is deflationary, power of knowledge flow, and fractionalization of everything.” – Miles Everson

“We’re going to take risks. What has always been will not necessarily always be forever.”

“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.” – Winston Churchill

“Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.” – Peter F. Drucker

“When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.” – Warren Buffett

“If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Knowledge itself is power.” – Francis Bacon, Sr.

“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.” – Socrates

“It is almost a miracle that modern teaching methods have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for what this delicate little plant needs more than anything, besides stimulation, is freedom.” – Albert Einstein

“If you are really good at what you do, you become an independent contractor by choice.” – Miles Everson

“It seems so self-evident to educators that those who do well in their classes must go on to do better in life that they systematically have disregarded evidence to the contrary that has been accumulating for some time.” – David C. McClelland, From “Testing for Competence Rather than Intelligence”, 1973

“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” – Malcolm S. Forbes

“The only difference between intelligence and education is this: intelligence will make you a good living.” – Charles F. Kettering

“My education was interrupted only by my schooling.” – Winston Churchill