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Graduation

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. – Henry Ford

Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn’t always have to be their top priority. – William Arthur Ward

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. – Henry Ford

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate. – Doug Larson

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks. – A.A. Milne

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. – Roger Babson

Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. – Arnold H. Glasow

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. – Francis Bacon, Essays, 1625

Education is the best provision for old age. – Aristotle

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. – Beverly Sills

Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money. – William Lyon Phelps

You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. – John Wooden

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know. – T. S. Eliot

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences. – Miguel de Cervantes

I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school. – Christina Aguilera

This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated! – Henny Youngman

I was never a Certified Public Accountant. I just had a degree in accounting. It would require passing a test, which I would not have been able to do. – Bob Newhart

Even though I disagree with many of the changes, when I see the privates graduate at the end of the day, when they walk off that drill field at the end of the ceremony, they are still fine privates outstanding, well motivated privates. – R. Lee Ermey

It is soooooo necessary to get the basic skills, because by the time you graduate, undergraduate or graduate, that field would have totally changed from your first day of school. – Leigh Steinberg