Stephen Covey Quotes

I think a college education is important no matter what you do in life.

A high school and college degree are linked to greater employment prospects, higher earning potential, and the ability to contribute more to our communities.

By climbing a steeper road, the value and appreciation Delaware State students took and continue to take from their education and their experiences is just as great, if not greater, than students attending ivy league schools.

Well, I tell young people to be successful today that, first of all, that what you learn today directly impacts what you earn tomorrow. This is a knowledge-based economy.

Better degrees don't automatically translate into better skills and better jobs and better lives.

I do want to finish my education. I just don't think that Boston has a big enough market for what I want to do.

From an early age I was told that I was expected to do more than continue to run a small business. Education was important and seen as a way of moving forward.

A lot of the education that I got at Michigan State I still use to this very day.

In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.

I went to Harvard College and determined right away when I was a junior that I was unemployable, since I think I applied to 300 jobs and didn't get any of them, so I decided that I would stay in school and go to Harvard Business school, and that's my background.

The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.

As far as I can see, about the only thing I've missed is a college education.

I finished my high school. I think an educate is very, very important.

In America today, a young person needs more education after high school just to have a chance to make it in the middle class. Not a guarantee, just a chance to make it.

The best jobs will go to the best educated people.

90% of the fastest growing jobs require some form of post-secondary education.

College education is the engine of social mobility in this country.

We know that a college degree is rapidly becoming the price of admission to the global economy.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

There's probably people that go to Harvard and say, 'Listen, I went to Harvard. I got a great education, and I can't find a job, or I didn't become the success that I could have been.' Sure, I mean, you probably have that at every major university.

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

I know that if I had got educated, I might have ended up as a call-center employee.

I feel like no matter what happens in my career endeavors after today, going to grad school is one of the best decisions I've ever made.

When I'm done playing basketball, I want do something bigger. I'm working on my doctorate right now at Barry University in Florida.

Having a college degree gave me the opportunity to be... well-rounded. Also, the people I met at the university, most of them are still my colleagues now. People I've known for years are all in the industry together.