Ashton Eaton Quotes

I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.

The Columbia Startup Lab is a visible symbol of how the university is making entrepreneurship an integral part of all colleges at the university.

A university is a place where ancient tradition thrives alongside the most revolutionary ideas. Perhaps as no other institution, a university is simultaneously committed to the day before yesterday and the day after tomorrow.

I am looking at opening a school of social engineering. The McAfee School of Social Engineering has a nice ring to it. Beyond that, it is hard to say what life will bring my way.

My children have been learning lessons about entrepreneurship since they were in kindergarten, and these lessons are paying off: even though they are only 22, 18, and 15, they have already collectively launched three nonprofit organizations and several new businesses.

The point of an accelerator is to teach you about companies and business, not about technology.

I had a friend who had been teaching music for a long time, and he knew a bunch of teachers, so I just put up the money and started a school.

I started my first company when I was in my college dorm as a senior with two of my really good friends. We started a company that became SparkNotes.com. You know CliffsNotes? SparkNotes is a modern-day version of that.

You looked at Stanford or Harvard, or the University of Colorado, these were powerful engines just turning out people ready to create and grow businesses.

I started Knewton to do my bit to fix the world's education system.

What is the engine that drives economic growth in an ideopolis? The university.

If you asked would I have done a startup in India, the answer is yes.

It turns out that no undergrad class prepares you to start a startup - you learn most of it as you do it.

Entrepreneurship is just one thing that needs to be in schools.

A creative idea plus a fresh network is the best way to go from zero to millions.

It's the combination: big idea with a good entrepreneur: there's nothing more powerful. That's just as true [for] education and human rights as it is for hotel or steels.

Entrepreneur is just French for 'has ideas, does them'.

By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.

A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.

I think a lot of becoming an entrepreneur is something which people have to learn just from getting out there and giving it a go, and having to learn the art of survival.

For now ACID Kreationz has only one body and that's me. I have intentions of hiring persons when I am through with university. For now it is only me but off and on I contract sound producers and other persons when the need arises.

It's when you take that first step opening a business or making an investment that it becomes real.

That's how we're going to stay innovative. We're going to continue to attract entrepreneurs who say, 'I found an idea, and I can go to Google and have a demo in a month and be launched in six.'

Nothing so good as a university education, nor worse than a university without its education.

You have to be ready for hard work and frugal spending to get the idea off the ground.