Famous Quotes & Sayings

Liberty Hyde Bailey

Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

Harvey Mackay

There's a place in the world for any business that takes care of its customers-after the sale.

Henry Giroux

Problems become privatized and removed from larger social issues. This is one task, connecting the personal problems to larger social issues that progressive leftist intellectuals have failed to take on as a major political and educational project.

Malcolm Muggeridge

The dogmatism of science has become a new orthodoxy, disseminated by the Media and a State educational system with a thoroughness and subtlety far exceeding anything of the kind achieved by the Inquisition; to the point that to believe today in a miraculous happening like the Virgin Birth is to appear a kind of imbecile....

Mahatma Gandhi

The real property that a parent can transmit to all equally is his or her character and educational facilities.

Jack Welch

What's important at the grocery store is just as important in engines or medical systems. If the customer isn't satisfied, if the stuff is getting stale, if the shelf isn't right, or if the offerings aren't right, it's the same thing. You manage it like a small organization. You don't get hung up on zeros.

Harvey Cushing

Standardization of our educational systems [which includes testing]is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.

James Cash Penney

Every great business is built on friendship.

Jon Bon Jovi

Map out your future, but do it in pencil.

Louis Nizer

Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.

John Cleese

Students who laugh more- learn more. Students who laugh more earn more.

Sydney J. Harris

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'

Robert Kiyosaki

In my opinion, the United States and many Western nations have a financial disaster coming, caused by our educational system’s failure to adequately provide a realistic financial education program for students.

Ellen Ochoa

I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out.

Ray Kurzweil

Find your passion, learn how to add value to it, and commit to a lifetime of learning.

Rajneesh

Love says respect the other as an end unto himself or herself; never use the other as a means. Nobody is a means for you, everybody is an end. But then ambition will flop, and our whole educational system depends on ambitiousness, our politics depends on ambition, our religions depend on ambition.

Thomas Jefferson

I look to the diffusion of light and education as the resource most to be relied on for ameliorating the condition, promoting the virtue and advancing the happiness of man.

Thomas Jefferson

I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful at this day, may be taught in it's highest degrees.

Thomas Jefferson

letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation.

Thomas Jefferson

I join you therefore in branding as cowardly the idea that the human mind is incapable of further advances.

Thomas Jefferson

What we learn to do, we learn by doing.

Robert Hass

If we want to have a two-class society and an unemployed, welfare-crippled lower class that has no access to equality and educational opportunity and no access to jobs and is resentful and furiously angry, we can have it - that's what we've been willing to pay for so far.

But you take a four-year state college, with a broader range of admission, and what happens during those four years may be an even greater value-added educational experience. I don't know.

One of the things that we're all struggling with is how to judge the quality of the value-added experience of an educational course or year. I don't think it's impossible to do that, but it's difficult.

Sophie Kinsella

Books are educational; so you can buy as many as you want." Sophie Kinsella, shopping at the Limelight Marketplace

Thomas Hill

To the makying of bookes of gardenyng there is noe ende.

Thomas G. Stemberg

One of the people who most influenced me was Ben Shapiro, a marketing professor at the business school. He used to rant and rave and pound his fist: 'It's all about the customers!' And he was right. He was also right that, at that time, retailing was devoid of really talented people; he urged me to go in that direction.

Thomas G. Stemberg

Forget 'branding' and 'positioning.' Once you understand customer behavior, everything else falls into place.

Thomas G. Stemberg

If a customer walks out without shoes, you really want to find out why. 'It didn't fit' is not good enough.

William J. Clinton

Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility. If our world is to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century we must harness the energy and creativity of all our citizens.

William James

To begin with our knowledge grows in spots. ..What you first gain, ... is probably a small amount of new information, a few new definitions, or distinctions, or points of view. But while these special ideas are being added, the rest of your knowledge stands still, and only gradually will you line up your previous opinions with the novelties I am trying to instill, and to modify to some slight degree their mass. ..Your mind in such processes is strained, and sometimes painfully so, between its older beliefs and the novelties which experience brings along.

William James

The most natively interesting object to a man is his own personal self and its fortunes. We accordingly see that the moment a thing becomes connected with the fortunes of the self, it forthwith becomes an interesting thing.