“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
“The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.” – Warren Buffett
“While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.” – Peter F. Drucker
“When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.” – Peter F. Drucker
“Freelancers are not a regrettable cost, they are a valued and critical asset.” – Miles Everson
“Perhaps a freshman with an SAT math score of 500 had better not have his heart set on being a mathematician, but if instead he wants to run his own business, become a US Senator, or make a million dollars, he should not put aside his dreams.” – Hernstein and Murray From the book, The Bell Curve
