Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leo Burnett

Anyone who thinks that people can be fooled or pushed around has an inaccurate and pretty low estimate of people - and he won't do very well in advertising.

Leo Burnett

If you can't turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn't be in the ad writing bsuiness at all.

Leo Burnett

The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders.

Leo Burnett

We want consumers to say, 'That's a hell of a product' instead of, 'That's a hell of an ad.'

Kate Mosse

The message is clear: libraries matter. Their solid presence at the heart of our towns sends the proud signal that everyone - whoever they are, whatever their educational background, whatever their age or their needs - is welcome.

John Katzman

Exciting discoveries in neuroscience are allowing us to fit educational methods to new understandings of how the brain develops.

John Kenneth Galbraith

People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants, mills,and the other familiar furniture of economic development.... But we are coming to realize... that there is a certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of illiteracy. Conquest of illiteracy comes first.

Lyndon B. Johnson

At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems - the answer for all the problems of the world - come to a single word. That word is "education."

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

God is in the details.

Lord Hailsham

The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.

Malcolm Gladwell

If you think advantage lies in resources, then you think the best educational system is the one that spends the most money.

Major Owens

I will continue my activities related to education in one way or another. I certainly would have at the top my agenda, with respect to education, the need to do much better with modern educational technology.

Major Owens

We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.

Major Owens

I do not think we are ever going to be able to, for a long time, get the kind of quality of school personnel that we need in our schools, especially in the areas of science and math. One of the answers to that problem is to use more educational technology.

Mahatma Gandhi

True education must correspond to the surrounding circumstances or it is not a healthy growth.

Mahatma Gandhi

Education should be so revolutionized as to answer the wants of the poorest villager, instead of answering those of an imperial exploiter.

Mahatma Gandhi

Love requires that true education should be easily accessible to all and should be of use to every villager in this daily life. The emphasis laid on the principle of spending every minute of one's life usefully is the best education for citizenship.

Mahatma Gandhi

What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.

Fred Wilson

Customers are a great way to finance a business for many reasons. First, customer financing is typically non dilutive. They want something from you other than equity in your business. Customers also help you fit your product to the market. And customers will help debug and improve the quality of the product.

John Lancaster Spalding

Those subjects have the greatest educational value, which are richest in incentives to the noblest self-activity.

Jim Rohn

A rose on time is more valuable than a $1,000 gift that's too late.

John Bunyan

The more he cast away, the more he had.

T. S. Eliot

Home is where one starts from.

Sydney J. Harris

The greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught.

Sydney J. Harris

Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

Ray Kurzweil

Find your passion, learn how to add value to it, and commit to a lifetime of learning.

Rajneesh

Love says respect the other as an end unto himself or herself; never use the other as a means. Nobody is a means for you, everybody is an end. But then ambition will flop, and our whole educational system depends on ambitiousness, our politics depends on ambition, our religions depend on ambition.

Thomas Jefferson

I look to the diffusion of light and education as the resource most to be relied on for ameliorating the condition, promoting the virtue and advancing the happiness of man.

Thomas Jefferson

I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful at this day, may be taught in it's highest degrees.

Thomas Jefferson

letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation.

Thomas Jefferson

I join you therefore in branding as cowardly the idea that the human mind is incapable of further advances.

Thomas Jefferson

What we learn to do, we learn by doing.

Robert Hass

If we want to have a two-class society and an unemployed, welfare-crippled lower class that has no access to equality and educational opportunity and no access to jobs and is resentful and furiously angry, we can have it - that's what we've been willing to pay for so far.