Sal Khan Quotes

I think I have slowly kind of had my name out there a little bit more and had some success.

I did my job to make my name a household name.

By early 2009, tens of thousands of students were watching tutorials on the Khan Academy every day. The software I wrote for my cousins had become so popular, it was making my $50-a-month web host crash. The possibilities surrounding the academy were so exciting that I had trouble doing my day job properly. And soon, I quit.

I think cheesecake helps call attention to you. Then you can follow through and prove yourself.

Unless you show off you're not going to get noticed.

If you don’t tell people about your success, they probably won’t know about it.

I should be known for my work and not how I promote myself and what I do.

If you've earned a position, be proud of it. Don't hide it. I want to be recognized. When I hear people say, 'There's Joan Crawford!' I turn around and say, 'Hi! How are you!'

My name is out there right now. I'm creative and innovative. I should capitalize on it.

If my work was good enough, I would never have to do publicity.

EdX will be a creating a platform which will be open source, not for profit, and a portal for a website where universities will offer their courses. For example, MIT courses will be offered as MITx and Harvard courses as HarvardX.

Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage. But virtue in obscurity is rewarded only in Heaven. To succeed in this world you have to be known to people.

He in Washington who does not toot his own horn may find it untooted.

I set out very calculatedly to become known. The only thing I maybe miscalculated was how easy it would be.

YouTube is my university.

I'm working my butt off every day to make sure people have my name on the tip of their tongue.

Our goal is for Khan Academy's software and content to be the best possible learning experience and for it to be for everyone, for free, forever. This is why we are a non-profit, and it's also what drives our small team and supporters.

I don't mind being in the public eye as long as I am doing something substantial.

If you don't toot your own horn, it goeth untooted.

I am not a known face and a lot of people wouldn't recognise me if I walked into a room. But that's okay with me. I want people to recognize me through my work.

It's kind of tough to get noticed. Sure, I can kick my leg over my head, but how do I get noticed?

I started as a nobody in this industry and today I can say that I have made some sort of a name for myself.

Unless you already have a name well known in at least one stratum of society, I don't think trying to do things yourself will be easy - if at all possible.

Some people are the best lyricists, got the most gas, but they don't know have the personality or the people skills to go out there and network and get they recognition and they name out there. Sometimes people can get in the way of they own selves man, real talk.

If you don't toot your own horn, don't complain that there's no music.