Alex Ferguson Quotes

I tell young people to prepare themselves as best they can for a world that grows more challenging every day-get the best education they can, and couple that education with real-life experience in social justice work.

I took a job at the Walt Disney Company and after 18 months decided to go to business school at Harvard. I was awestruck by the campus. My first reaction was 'I don't belong here.' Then I said, 'I'm here; let's get on with it.'

Following graduation from high school in 1948, I attended Harvard University where I became a physics major. Having grown up in a small town, I found Harvard to be an enormously enriching experience. Students in my class came from all walks of life and from a great variety of geographical locations.

The best part of my carreer is getting to meet so many different people, because I learn so much from everyone.

I've lectured at the Harvard Business School several times.

BYU was a really positive place for me.

One of the blessings of Notre Dame is where it's at. It's in the middle of nowhere, but you become part of the community. It's a lifestyle, and it has a code, and that code teaches young men and women responsibility and leadership.

Coming to Harvard was an eye-opening experience because there's so much diversity on campus.

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 could go to Oxford, I could immerse myself in a new culture, I could develop my intellectual capital, I could expand my network, I can travel from country to country like it's state to state, and being in that fraternity of Rhodes Scholars was just a truly special demarcation.

I've been very lucky that I've interviewed so many different people.

Lifelong learning is becoming commonplace, with people studying at different times when they see the benefits of doing so.

I want to be here for my family. I want to make stuff in Australia. I want to take what I've learned and contribute it to the industry. I think there's a moral imperative to do so for people like me.

One quality of leaders and high achievers in every area seems to be a commitment to ongoing personal and professional development.

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

The more seriously you take your growth, the more seriously your people will take you.

Every new level of growth we hope to experience as leaders calls for a new level of change. You cannot have one without the other. If you want to be a better leader, get ready to make some trades.

I'm a much better coach than I was six years ago.

I think you're still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.

The knowledge and experience which produce wisdom can only become a man's individual possession and property by his own free action; and it is as futile to expect these without laborious, painstaking effort, as it is to hope to gather a harvest where the seed has not been sown.

Through learning we grow, becoming more than we were before, and in that sense learning is unselfish, because it results in the transformation of what we were before, a setting aside of the old self in favor of a more complex one.

I won a really big fellowship to go straight on to get my Ph.D. And I went through agonies of indecision, and then I decided not to accept it. I just decided I didn't want to be an academic.

There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student.

The best way to improve your team is to improve yourself.

My father taught me to always do more than you get paid for as an investment in your future.