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Graduation

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later. – Harold Geneen

The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after. – Newton D. Baker

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. – B.F. Skinner

The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. – Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. – Robert Louis Stevenson

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. – Albert Einstein

Of course there’s a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don’t take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates. – A. Lawrence Lowell

If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you. – Robert Goheen, Time, 23 June 1961

The truth is, I was afraid the day I walked into Stanford. And I was afraid the day I walked out. – Carly Fiorina

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life’s Little Instruction Book

If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm. – Vince Lombardi

I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back. – Fred Allen

You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it. – John Updike

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. – e.e. cummings

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. – Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel

There is just one life for each of us: our own. – Euripides

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. – Dr.Seuss

The purpose of a liberal education is to make you philosophical enough to accept the fact that you will never make much money. – Author Unknown

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving. – Russell Green