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Concentration can be cultivated. One can learn to exercise will power, discipline one's body and train one's mind.
Anil Ambani - Focus - Learning - Change - Power

In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk - Learning - Knowledge - Solution

My people are going to learn the principles of democracy the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Let them worship as they will, every man can follow his own conscience provided it does not interfere with sane reason or bid him act against the liberty of his fellow men.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk - Learning - Knowledge - Truth - Politics

The more I study the wealthy.. in an effort to learn how to help more people around the world become one of them.. I’m stunned by how many people are actually not rich.
David Bach - Rich - Learning - Poverty

Financial education needs to become a part of our national curriculum and scoring systems so that it’s not just the rich kids that learn about money.. it’s all of us.
David Bach - Rich - Learning - Finance - Money

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.
Steve Ballmer - Technology - Learning - Innovation - Solutions

I learned to embrace risk, as long as it was well thought out and, in a worst-case scenario, I’d still land on my feet.
Eli Broad - Risk - Learn - Planning

Australia must prioritise education spending. It is not a question of whether or not we have the money, it is a question of how we choose to spend it.
Bob Brown - Priorities - Learning - Money

We must have an expansionary vision, one that captures the imagination and diversity of the whole community, one which befits a nation which has moved beyond the basics of literacy and numeracy and which wants to develop a learning culture, to affirm its democratic traditions and give expression to the diversity and vibrance of its community through its public education system. Putting optimism for everyone back into Australia’s future depends on it.
Bob Brown - Learning - Ambition

Rarely is the question asked, is our children learning?
George Bushism - Funny - Stupid - Questions - Learning

One of the things that may get in the way of people being lifelong learners is that they’re not in touch with their passion. If you’re passionate about what it is you do, then you’re going to be looking for everything you can to get better at it.
Jack Canfield - Learning - Passionate - Improvement

The problem is the average person isn’t tuned in to lifelong learning, or going to seminars and so forth. If the information is not on television, and it’s not in the movies they watch, and it’s not in the few books that they buy, they don’t get it.
Jack Canfield - Learning - Improvement - Problems - Media - Books

I'm a big believer in growth. Life is not about achievement, it's about learning and growth, and developing qualities like compassion, patience, perseverance, love, and joy, and so forth. And so if that is the case, then I think our goals should include something which stretches us.
Jack Canfield - Learning - Goals - Belief - Growth - Achievement - Compassion - Persistence - Patience - Love

I think there’s too much emphasis placed on learning things by rote that you don’t really care about. So what happens to students in school is that they eventually lose interest in learning, because they’ve been forced to learn the required courses, rather than pursing their passion.
Jack Canfield - Learning - Passionate - Interest - School

Learning is an active process. We learn by doing.. Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.
Dale Carnegie - Learning - Knowledge

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill - Learning - Knowledge

When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable.
Bill Clinton - Knowledge - Goals - Learning

I'm a firm believer that to really understand a business takes years, not months. As an investment analyst you think you understand a business from the outside, but the reality is that, once you are inside, you can go on learning for five or ten years.
Chris Corrigan - Management - Business - Investing - Learning

It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.
Stephen Covey - Technology - Learning

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Learning - Life

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Learning - Life - Action -

Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.
BC Forbes - Knowledge - Self Help - Learning

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi - Life - Learning - Death - Inspirational

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Bill Gates - Customers - Learning

Wall Street people learn nothing and forget everything.
Benjamin Graham - Learning - Stock Market - Investing

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Aldous Huxley - Life - People - Self Control - Learning

In business, I loved cars. I couldn’t wait to get to work in the morning. Only in America can you decide to get a good education and pursue what you like.
Lee Iacocca - Business - Jobs - Learning - Passions

I was fortunate to get a scholarship when I went to Lehigh University and Princeton. They were both wonderful schools. Somebody was kind enough to spend their money to educate people that they would never get to know. That’s what I think philanthropy is about.
Lee Iacocca - Learning - Money - Philanthropy

You learn in this business.. If you want a friend, get a dog.
Carl Icahn - Business - Learning

I've learned so many things and a lot of things I've learned the hard way. I look at failure as education in that respect I'm very well educated.
Kathy Ireland - Learning - Failure - Education

I have to say I've made many mistakes, and been humbled many, many times. But you know what? It's never too late to learn.
Kathy Ireland - Learning - Mistakes

What a relief it was to discover that I wasnt realy an idiot! I simply had a learning disability.
John H. Johnson - Learning - Knowledge

It was my teacher's genius, her quick sympathy, her loving tact which made the first years of my education so beautiful. It was because she seized the right moment to impart knowledge that made it so pleasant and acceptable to me.
Helen Keller - Encouragement - Knowledge - Learning

Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in, and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding-line, and had no way of knowing how near the harbour was.
Helen Keller - Challenges - Knowledge - Learning

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.
Robert Kiyosaki - Knowledge - Learning -

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing.
Robert Kiyosaki - Money - Knowledge - Learning -

We've got a portfolio of companies that range all the way from hotels to television stations and cable TV companies, oil and gas, consumer products, and industrial products. If there's anything that I want to know more about, I have the opportunity. It's right in our portfolio. I can spend time at the factory or with the manangement and learn as much as I want. You can't get bored doing that.
Henry Kravis - Companies - Management - Opportunity - Learning - Bored

The price pattern reminds you that every movement of importance is but a repetition of similar price movements, that just as soon as you can familiarize yourself with the actions of the past, you will be able to anticipate and act correctly and profitably upon forthcoming movements.
Jesse Livermore - Stock Market - Investing - Learning

My philosophy is that life is all about learning and growing, and that life can be a real adventure of learning, growing, compassion, and joyfulness.
John Mackey - Life - Learning - Growth - Happiness

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Nelson Mandela - Challenges - Inspirational - Learning - Courage - Fear - Brave

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Nelson Mandela - Learning - Compassion - Love - Religion

I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks. All that is necessary is not to be afraid of making mistakes, or of appearing naive.
Abraham Maslow - Management - Learning - Fear - Mistakes - Encouragement

If you want to be constructive in politics, the less you look back, the better. If you do look back, then it can only be to learn for yourself through the events that have taken place.
Angela Merkel - Politicians - Learning

It is extremely unlikely that anyone coming out of school with a technical degree will go into one area and stay there. Today's students have to look forward to the excitement of probably having three or four careers.
Gordon Moore - Learning - Change - Jobs - Technology

With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.
Gordon Moore - Learning - Technology - Challenges - Failure

The technology at the leading edge changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you get out of school. I think probably the most important thing is having good fundamentals.
Gordon Moore - Learning - Knowledge - Change - Technology

We all are learning, modifying, or destroying ideas all the time. Rapid destruction of your ideas when the time is right is one of the most valuable qualities you can acquire. You must force yourself to consider arguments on the other side.
Charlie Munger - Learning - Ideas - Change

Forgetting your mistakes is a terrible error if you are trying to improve your cognition.
Charlie Munger - Learning - Mistakes - Improvement

You need to have a passionate interest in why things are happening. That cast of mind, kept over long periods, gradually improves your ability to focus on reality. If you don’t have the cast of mind, you’re destined for failure even if you have a high I.Q.
Charlie Munger - Learning - Interesting - Improvement - Passionate - Intelligent - Focus

I have been privileged to grow up retaining the love of good journalism, the craft, while learning its business: the dollars and cents. I have learnt that they are not mutually exclusive but integrally self-reliant. Each dependent on the other.
Lachlan Murdoch - Journalism - Business - Media - Profits - Money - Learning

Your best teacher is your last mistake.
Ralph Nader - Mistakes - Learning

I now know that I learn by solving problems as they arise. Rarely do we learn significant lessons, or significantly improve, any other way.
Bob Parsons - Learning - Problems - Solutions

As you get bigger, you have to learn to delegate. It’s also an excellent way to get staff involved in the company’s operations.
Azim Premji - Companies - Learning - Priorities

The early years were more about learning than about acting. I had to carry on my father’s work, which was a big challenge.
Azim Premji - Companies - Learning - Challenges

There are millions of children today who don’t attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
Azim Premji - Learning - Encouragement - Poverty

I think earning money is the simplest thing in the world once you learn how to do it. It’s like driving a car. It’s simple if you know how to do it.
Bob Proctor - Earnings - Money - Learning - Optimistic

Gratitude is an attitude that hooks us up to our source of supply. And the more grateful you are, the closer you become to your maker, to the architect of the universe, to the spiritual core of your being. It’s a phenomenal lesson.
Bob Proctor - Attitude - God - Spiritual - Learning - Gratitude

Over a long distance, you learn about the strength of your horse; over a long time, you learn about the character of your friend.
Chinese Proverbs - Learning - Strength - Friendship

I see, I forget. I hear, I remember. I do, I understand.
Chinese Proverbs - Learning - Understanding

Once you learn to discern the voice of Mother Culture humming in the background, telling her story over and over again to the people of your culture, you'll never stop being conscious of it. Wherever you go for the rest of your life, you'll be tempted to say to the people around you, 'How can you listen to this stuff and not recognize it for what it is?
Daniel Quinn - Learning - Life - Culture - Nature

We learned early on that if we help enough people, the money will come.
Dave Ramsey - Learning - Money - People

I came to realize that my money problems, worries, and shortages largely began and ended with the person in my mirror. I realized also that if I could learn to manage the character I shaved with every morning, I would win with money.
Dave Ramsey - Learning - Problems - Money - Responsibility

The main focus in my life now is to open people's minds so no one will be so conceited that they think they have the total truth. They should be eager to learn, to listen, to research and not to confine, to hurt, to kill, those who disagree with them.
John Templeton - Focus - Learning - Truth

I believe through learning and application of what you learn, you can solve any problem, overcome any obstacle and achieve any goal that you can set for yourself.
Brian Tracy - Achievement - Learning - Goals - Problems - Solutions - Belief

Leaders are made, not born. You learn to become a leader by doing what other excellent leaders have done before you. You become proficient in your job or skill, and then you become proficient at understanding the motivations and behaviors of other people.
Brian Tracy - Learning - Leadership - Skill - Jobs - Motivational

You can't know it all. No matter how smart you are, no matter how comprehensive your education, no matter how wide ranging your experience, there is simply no way to acquire all the wisdom you need to make your business thrive.
Donald Trump - Learning - Business - Knowledge

Watch, listen, and learn. You can't know it all yourself.. anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.
Donald Trump - Learning - Business -

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.
Jack Welch - Action - Learning

I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.
Jack Welch - Mistakes - Learning - Success -

At home we have always regarded the dining table as the prime seat of learning. We planned it so it was impossible to see or hear a TV from the table, and it has paid dividends in the volume of ideas that have been shared over the evening meal.
Noel Whittaker - Family - Planning - Learning - Ideas

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
Oscar Wilde - Mistakes - Learning

What I know for sure is that behind every catastrophe, there are great lessons to be learned. Among the many that we as a country need to get is that as long as we play the "us and them" game, we don't evolve as people, as a nation, as a planet.
Oprah Winfrey - Partnership - Learning -

One of the biggest lessons I've learned recently is that when you don't know what to do, you should do nothing until you figure out what to do because a lot of times you feel like you are pressed against the wall, and you've got to make a decision. You never have to do anything. Don't know what to do? Do nothing.
Oprah Winfrey - Decisions - Learning - Action -

It helps a ton when you learn people's names and don't butcher them when trying to pronounce them.
Jerry Yang - Learning - Customers

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