George Gilder Quotes

The old economy was about people acquiring a single skill for life; the new economy is about life-long learning.

I think it's become an economic necessity for people to be able to learn and grow throughout their lives, because most people can't get through their entire career with one skill set. We have to keep reinventing ourselves.

I'm just learning every day and I hope to continue that until the day I die. I'm just trying to learn and experience as much as I possibly can. I look at acting, at how I look at being involved in a job and living my life and prioritising.

The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia.

You should keep on learning as long as there is something you do not know.

Learn at every opportunity. What your learn is always yours.

The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men.

The game is to keep learning, and I don't think people are going to keep learning who don't like the learning process.

To tell you the truth, the older I get, the less I know. I keep meeting people, both older and younger, who seem to have accrued so much more knowledge or expertise or certainty about who they are and the jobs they do. I just marvel at it.

Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.

I have never spent a day in my adult life where I didn't learn something, and if there is a born-again quality to me, that's it.

Colleges typically did not tell you that ninety percent of your education came after you hung the parchment on the wall. People might ask for a rebate.

No matter how much you know, how well read you are, how traveled or cultured, you should never stop learning.

When I finished my college education my agent said to me …'The key to beauty is to be always educating yourself, always learning something new, always doing something new and to have something to talk about.' And I never forgot that, and I think that's how one ages beautifully.

You can finish school, and even make it easy - but you never finish your education, and it's seldom easy.

I'm all for education. Education ideally happens every moment of the day for people. Education is something that should never stop. The Limbaugh Institute, there are no graduates and no degrees 'cause the learning never stops here. You know, education's a pretty big umbrella.

The leader's job is to lead and protect. Not have all the answers, not know everything to do, not to micromanage and tell people what to do or how to do it. A leader's job is to lead and protect. That's their job, and it's the people within the organization - their job is to get the work done.

If you want to live a top shelf life then you need to stand on the books you have read. Never stop learning, never stop growing.

A well-designed welfare state can actually encourage people to take chances with their jobs and be more, not less, open to changes.

It's hard to get money to support your [non-profit] organization if you have no evidence. It's very much like the acting business: You need an agent and manager so you can get a job to get resources, but you can't get an agent and a manager unless people see your work.

An organization that is not facing up to people who are not getting the job done, is going to have difficulties.

The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more.

The future of work consists of learning a living.

The best leaders are the most dedicated learners. Read great books daily.

Your education never stops and college is just the beginning. You come out of college with a huge advantage in that you've ideally and more times than not you've come out with a love of learning and that's what matters above all.