Education

For me it is important that the kids see me for who I am – a good person who works hard but has fun.

Jamaican Sprinter & Olympic Gold Medalist, Fastest Human Ever

This kind of play improved all of my cognitive skills and really showed me how journeys that began with curiosity could turn into bigger dreams.

Producer of Academy Award-winning films and television shows

Everyone in a high functioning organisation is simultaneously a teacher and a student. They will have been taught by others, and will be teaching others.

Co-Founder & CEO of Blackstone, Global Investment Powerhouse

One of the greatest skills you can have as an entrepreneur is loving to learn.

Billionaire Investor, Shark Tank Investor & Dallas Mavericks Owner

As an entrepreneur, I got my education out in the world – real life learning is the way forward for young entrepreneurs. And this is what we must encourage and support.

Founder of Virgin Group & British Billionaire Entrepreneur

The concept of Wikia is to provide a platform for communities to build 'the rest of the library', everything that doesn't belong in an encyclopaedia. The purpose is to empower the next wave of massive collaboration, and to extend participatory culture beyond just the non-profit educational and reference works.

Co-Founder of Wikipedia & Online Encyclopedia Pioneer

Seventeen of the top twenty universities in the world are in the USA, one third of all students who leave their countries to study in another come to the USA.

Chief Strategist & Senior Currency Strategist at Bannockburn Global Forex

Only the educated are free.

The absolute focus must be on reducing inequality. This means creating strategies which provide economic opportunity - investing in industries that provide employment rather than profit, investing in education, and providing a fairer deal for those who form the labour force.

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There are a high number of young people who want to set-up businesses, but there is a huge gap between their aspirations/intentions and the actual delivery of setting up a business…. More so with the young than any other age group.

One of the unique aspects of a prize, and particularly an X-Prize, is that it doesn't require letters after your name, specific degrees or backgrounds or so on. We simply define what it is we want solved, and award the prize to whomever is able to accomplish that.

Entrepreneurship means a constant willingness to keep learning. It's about maintaining that start-up spirit—where you're forever young, and forever in crisis. It's about always having your mind on the business.

Founder and CEO of Baidu, China's leading search engine company

If you want to be a great entrepreneur, you need to broaden your intellectual horizons.

The brains of our ancestor Homo sapiens were the same as our brains. How to draw, how to write, how to think, have all been learned, sometimes with great difficulty, and the learning has been passed on.

We crystallize and store knowledge in specialised sounds and language, and then play with it – build and forge and mould it and model with it – using it to grip hold of the past and to imagine and plan the future.

Out of our cleverness has emerged something almost more important than the cleverness itself. Out of it has come learning about how to share ideas and pass down skills and knowledge. Out of it has come education.