Lloyd Blankfein Quotes

I'm 18, I'm going to graduate high school in a few months.

I never went to college - I barely got out of high school.

I had, before I went to college, I had taken a few years off after high school and really had, I guess in those days, I had no intentions of going to college.

According to a study by Achieve Incorporated, Texas is the first state to make a college-prep curriculum the standard coursework in high school, starting with this year's ninth grade class.

To compete in a global economy, our students must continue their education beyond high school. To make this expectation a reality, we must give students the tools they need to succeed, including the opportunity to take a college entrance exam.

Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.

I started in high school and then I went onto professional training after that.

I tried to go to college, I barely got out of high school.

The American idea that everyone graduates high school at 18 is a good one.

I went to prep school for one year in Arizona. It was called Orme.

I thought about going to NYU film school - that was this ideal to me. But I didn't make any kind of grades in high school.

All students should have the opportunity to receive their high school diplomas and be fully prepared for college or the workplace.

I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.

I went to college because I felt like I was supposed to. I graduated from public high school and I did all the things that I was supposed to do.

I was born knowing I had to go to college.

I went back to school for the end of eighth grade and for all of high school, which was awesome.

Where did I study? I went to P.S. 6. I went to Collegiate, Middlesex, Tufts, Juilliard.

All of the great big men went to college at least two or three years. I think it's a big factor. I don't know if it will always work, but I think it's the best choice.

My senior year of high school, I probably wouldn't get so much out of it as if I went to college.

College is right for some people, and it's not for others. I shouldn't rush into it just because that's what everyone does after high school is you go to college.

I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.

The number of students participating in A.P. has more than doubled in 10 years, and today almost 15,000 U.S. schools offer A.P. courses.

No one in my family had ever even gone to college.

For me, having the opportunity to go to college was very important. To miss out on an education is a loss.

For whatever reason, college was just not a huge focus for me. I wasn't planning ahead. I just didn't think about it too much.