Hilary Mason Quotes

We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.

In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.

No matter what business you're in, you can't run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn't matter how many games you've won.

In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future.

Prosperity belongs to those who learn new things the fastest.

Change is unavoidable. You change either to stay ahead or to catch up.

I'm a constant learner. You need to be a constant student because things change and you have to change and grow. And I emphasize the word 'grow.'

Change is the end result of all true learning.

Today, you expand or you are expendable.

If you don't keep learning and growing, you're going to stagnate.

... things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a revolutionary effect on human affairs.

We have changed because we have learned.

Since I became CEO, 87 percent of the companies in the Fortune 500 are off the list. What that says is that companies that don't reinvent themselves will be left behind. I also think that's true of people. And I think it's true of countries.

You either innovate or you become defunct.

I am always trying to learn and adapt.

Anybody, and any company, can have a big run of success once, but if you're going to repeat that over time, you need to be aware that you need to keep learning.

It's not that things won't change - they can't help but change. Things are becoming more and more competitive.

You've got to do a lot of research. That's the biggest thing: I try to gather as much information as I can to maximize myself. Because if you're just standing still, you're going to be a dinosaur and everyone else will go around you. That's like my biggest fear.

You can never learn less; you can only learn more. The reason I know so much is because I have made so many mistakes.

Warren is one of the best learning machines on this earth. The turtles who outrun the hares are learning machines. If you stop learning in this world, the world rushes right by you.

Learning is the essential unit of progress for startups.

Businessmen must move with the times...the correlation between knowledge and business as the key to success is closer than ever.

Think of something new you’ve actually learned in the past week; if you can’t think of anything, get comfortable where you’re at because you’re not going anywhere. To stop learning is to stop living.

Anyone not busy learning is busy dying.

I will consistently strive to learn by what I hear, see, and feel. I will write down the important things I learn, and I will do them.