Roy H. Williams Quotes

I like to learn about things. I could learn about business, which I knew nothing about. Since the age of 7, I wanted to be a doctor and nothing else.

My favorite way to do business is the Landmark Education Forum.

It's certainly my honor to be able to, hopefully, change the world a tiny bit, one mind at a time.

I love and always have loved policy issues and trying to have an impact on the issues that are out there. I cherish my years in government. I have loved my participation at CNN, at Current; writing; teaching. Where I will go next, I will have to sort out.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

Not everyone is born to run a $4 billion company. There is no magic formula. I've learned, and I've grown by learning. That's why I've enjoyed being in business so much: It's stretched me.

What is a college? An institute of learning. What is a business? An institute of learning. Life, itself, is an institute of learning.

Starting your own business isn't just a job - it's a way of life.

I've gone to school for business, for design, for architecture.

I don't think enough journalists read enough - literature, history. You've got to keep reading all through your career.

One of my goals is to educate myself more as a woman in this business.

I was an entrepreneur myself and often say that I'm on loan to public service.

Great law schools like Northwestern are here to expand the minds of their students, to allow them to achieve their personal goals, to enable them to contribute, to give back in ways that they could not without the education they receive here, and to help them make the greatest country in the world just a little more accessible, a little fairer.

The most trusted way to keep moving up that value chain is to keep investing in individuals - to help them grow in knowledge and skills. Education is hard. It takes individuals to do the hard work.

Every role affects you.

I think we need to recognize that learning is a lifelong goal, a lifelong experience.

I became a teacher because I wanted to make a difference in people's lives.

I went to business school in my thirties.

When you are working with Salman you learn things continuously, there is always a scope of improvement.

After graduating from high school, I worked at an advertising agency as a designer. After I left, I spent a year doing nothing in particular. At age 23, I drew my first comic.

When we make these decisions that we're going to commit ourselves to making a difference in the life of one person every single day, what happens is we actually build a whole generation of citizen leaders.

Every day, I want to learn something new; I want to move up.

For my career, I want to be able to do projects that have serious context to them or that make me grow as a person and an artist after the experience.

Jim Newman, the business visionary who created the term 'comfort zone,' showed me how to expand my horizons. Thanks to Jim, after I attended one of his PACE Seminars in 1978; I moved out of my comfort zone at Bear Stearns and became a super successful oilman.

I studied B.Sc electronics to be an engineer and later did masters in communication and advertising. I loved engineering for what it could accomplish to make our lives easier. But, I realised that it was not my passion.