If you improve your education system, there's no telling what kind of businesses you'll be able to attract.
I learned a lot from that first record and I learned a lot from my experiences touring, but really the biggest education I got over the past two years was learning the importance of arrangements.
I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure education came before anything. I had a good childhood, grew up spending time with my bigger brothers and sisters. My people are good people. I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of people and culture.
The deciding factor of why some entrepreneurs are successful and others fail is not limited to your DNA or your education; it is about the actions you take as the leader of your business.
Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.
There are not enough philanthropic dollars in America to fund what is currently the need in education.
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
An education system where student selection is based on credit capacity and not merit capacity and where graduating students are no longer indebted to the nation, but increasingly indebted to the Australian Taxation Office - that's no way to improve the quality of education.
Most high governmental officials who speak of education policy seem to conceive of education in this light - as a way to ensure economic competitiveness and continued economic growth. I strongly disagree with this approach.
A boy or girl who has gone through the eight grades should possess a complete, practical education and should have received special training in some specific line of work, fitting him or her to earn a livelihood.
It's very satisfying to promote science and education and see good results. Setting a good example for young people, being a role model, is very important for me.
I feel like in America, we don't have a kid problem. You think about all these issues that these kids are dealing with, we have an adult problem. We have adults that do not place the priority on our kids to get a valuable education.
When I was getting my education, I fell in love with the writings of Peter Drucker. He was my hero. I had a naive belief that when I became a manager, it was going to be like Peter Drucker's books. That is, I was going to be the effective executive. I was going to talk to people about their goals. I was going to help them actualize.
Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
If politicians in a state block education choice, it means those politicians do not support equal opportunity for all kids.
Few things are as essential as education.
From an early age I was told that I was expected to do more than continue to run a small business. Education was important and seen as a way of moving forward.
I grew up between the two world wars and received a rather solid general education, the kind middle class children enjoyed in a country whose educational system had its roots dating back to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.
What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.
When I was a child I didn't care about getting an education, and I didn't finish high school.
Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.
All my life, I just felt that I should have finished my education.
People should be judged on the basis of their performance, not nationality, personality, education, or personal traits and skills.
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
Some of the things I think I learned from that were very educational as far as just paying bills - the basics in dealing with a restaurant like that. It was just life - the education involved in running the organization, even on a small level.
Instead of saving for someone else's college education, I'm currently saving for a luxury retirement community replete with golf carts and handsome young male nurses who love butterscotch.
Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions.
This is not a skill problem, this is a will problem. Does America have the will to make education a priority? We know the things that work. Why don't we scale up those things that do work.
High bankruptcy rates, increased credit card debt, and identity theft make it imperative that all of us take an active role in providing financial and economic education during all stages of one's life.
I don't know whether I much enjoyed education. I was not academically gifted.
Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.
The education of my brother and myself was of paramount importance to my parents, and in addition to their strong encouragement, they were prepared to make any sacrifice to further our intellectual development.
Under these conditions it is not astonishing that learning was highly prized; in fact, my parents made sacrifices to be able to give their children a good education.
A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination.
There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests.