Will Rogers Quotes

That's the value of a college education... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can make an investment and make that kind of return.

If you borrowed money and went to a college where the education didn't create any value, that is potentially a really big mistake.

I will tell you, in the case of education, you have to make the investment if you're going to get the return. There's no doubt about that. It's a proven fact the return is there if you make the investment. It really is about priorities.

Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.

When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute.

Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.

There is no such thing as high returns without risk.

I feel like when there's so much conversation about women's athletics right now, we need to focus on their performance and their skill.

The internal dialogue is what grounds people in the daily world. The world is such and such or so and so, only because we talk to ourselves about its being such and such and so and so. The passageway into the world of shamans opens up after the warrior has learned to shut off his internal dialogue

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent.

Don't be addicted to money. Work to learn. don't work for money. Work for knowledge.

Last time I checked I was able to throw the ball a little bit.

The shy man will not learn; the impatient man should not teach.

I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation

Expose a child to a particular environment at this susceptible time and he will perceive in the shapes of that environment until he dies.

In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime.

Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating. Youngsters need good models more than they need critics. It's one of a parent's greatest responsibilities and opportunities.

About this business of being a gentleman: I paid so heavily for the fourteen years of my gentleman's education that I feel entitled, now and then, to get some sort of return.

God send everyone their heart's desire!

[The 1975 Chase Econometrics] showed that for every one dollar spent on Apollo, 14 came back into the U.S. economy.

Being educated means to prefer the best not only to the worst but to the second best.

In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.

Learn to hide your need and show your skill.

Just as eating against one's will is injurious to health, so studying without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in.