Marilyn Ferguson Quotes

A lot of my travel is at least partly work, visiting schools and libraries, especially in France.

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

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

During one of my early seminars, there were a bunch of seminar junkies there.

If a student takes a Stanford computer class and a Princeton business class, it shows they are motivated and have skills. We know it has helped employees get better jobs.

I'm thrilled I have the opportunity to do the 'Spread' show and have the terrific sponsors that we work with like Nikon or Verizon.

I've gotten e-mails asking, 'Are you taking students?' Well, come visit and I'll be happy to talk to you. But I'm not a degree-granting institution.

I think you can go to school at any age.

Career Education is one of the largest global providers in the higher education sector. We are projecting to be over $1.1 billion in revenue in 2003, which puts us number one in our sector for onsite education and number two for online education in terms of revenue.

In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.

The tours are campaigns.

I'm not interested in on-the-job learning or on-the-job training.

My rhetoric degree ended up being very helpful in advertising. I got an internship and then figured I will be a copywriter; that will be my path.

I feed on conferences.

In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system.

It was never my intent to come back to college.

After completing my studies, I got into advertising.

I have always tried to market myself.

I can always go back to education.

For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to take him.

For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.

The livelihood of the restaurant is dependent upon getting the word out. There's so much more competition. You can do an event every week and not cook at all.

Education - lifelong education for everyone - from toddlers to workers well advanced in their careers - is indeed an excellent investment for individuals and society as a whole.

The advertising industry is one of our most basic forms of communication and, allegedly, of information. Yet, obviously, much of this ostensible information is not purveyed to inform but to manipulate and to achieve a result - to make somebody think he needs something that very possibly he doesn't need, or to make him think one version of something is better than another version when the ground for such a belief really doesn't exist.

You need not hang up the ivy branch over the wine that will sell.