Quotes on Earning It

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

The darkest day in a man's career is that wherein he fancies there is some easier way of getting a dollar than by squarely earning it.

If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising.

Leading is not the same as being the leader. Being the leader means you hold the highest rank, either by earning it, good fortune or navigating internal politics. Leading, however, means that others willingly follow you—not because they have to, not because they are paid to, but because they want to.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.