“Those who will not read are no better off than those who cannot read.”

Life is not just the passing of time. Life is the collection of experiences and their intensity.

When you work, work. When you play, play. Don’t mix the two.

Don’t shortchange yourself when it comes to investing in your own better future.

The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Good service leads to multiple sales. If you take good care of your customers, they will open doors you could never open by yourself.

It isn’t what the book costs. It’s what it will cost you if you don’t read it.

I used to blame everything outside of me for my lack of progress until I found that my problem was inside.

Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow.

Start reading, and especially read the kinds of books that will help you unleash your inner potential.

Never begrudge the money you spend on your own education.

The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

The problem with waiting until tomorrow is that when it finally arrives, it is called today.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

All leaders are readers.

My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.

Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.

It really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I’m supposed to think.

The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read and write.

Racial discrimination in public education is unconstitutional. All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting such discrimination must yield to this principle.

Modern education develops the intellect and imparts skills, but does not promote qualities in any way.

I should say in general the advantage of education is to better fit a man for life’s work. I would advise young men to take a college course, as a rule, but think some are just as well off with a thorough business training.