Shiva Ayyadurai Quotes

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

I got alright GCSEs, but I was lost. I didn't know what to do, whether to continue with education, go to uni, go to art school - then again, I was like, 'Maybe I should just go and get a job, start early and make money.'

Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.

I hated school. After 15, you went off to college if you were good enough. It didn't appeal to me so I left school. I did what everybody did - get a job.

I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.

I have a lot of influences. I'm American-schooled. I'm classically trained. I'm a pretty universal student, if you will. I have a lot of degrees, which really don't pay the rent. I have two doctorate degrees, I have a bachelor's degree, but I'm still a cook.

Stay in school kids or you'll end up being an umpire.

I graduated high school and I didn't have a skill set and I didn't want to go to college. I needed a job.

I trained, went to college, trained, and got a job. Then got another job. When I wasn't working I worked at a bar, then got another job.

My parents were the good parents that said, 'You should try and get a good job and go to college and get an education.'

If that is your route, to go to university and get a job that way, that is fantastic.

Where I'm from, you focus on finishing school. Even finishing college is seen as a stretch - you just get a job after school, and that's it.

I started working at age thirteen. I'm a product of public schools, I'm a product of a public university. I started my first company when I was 21. I've subsequently never worked for anybody else. I started that first business when I was still in college.

I'm convinced we go to school at the wrong time. I'd have been delighted, aged 12, to get out into the world and earn some money doing something menial.

I was brought up knowing that you have to make a living.

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.

I was at the mercy of somebody else to just give me a job in the years after 'Boy Meets World' ended, whereas if I had gone to college and had when a Plan B, and it was something else that I loved, I could've walked away at any point.

Having an education is extremely valuable, but we need to help people connect their choice of studies to a potential career at an earlier age so that they are better prepared to get the job they want when the time comes.

I learned how to do absolutely nothing - I didn't learn one thing in high school. If I had to get a job at the A&P, they had to teach me how to sweep.

The idea of having proper qualifications had been very much ingrained in me. My father had a steady job for the Potato Marketing Board, and the family emphasis was on getting to university.

I have to continue to work, and I have to be touring, because that's how I earn a living.

Obviously, I'm going to graduate college. So if sports don't work out, I'll have something to fall back on.

My father and mother do not know literacy. I cannot go to school due to financial difficulties. I started to working at a butcher as an apprentice when I was 14.

First and foremost, we have to ensure that we have to get our own kids ready for work so that employers want to take them on.

My father insisted that each of us have a career. His family were refugees and he understood the vicissitudes of fortune.