My life needed a challenge, so in 1973, at age 50, I determined to get a Ph.D. They don't call them doctors for nothing. Getting a Ph.D. is painful.
Jean Andrews
University of Texas at Austin Commencement 2003, 2003
Aim for the stars. You might not reach them, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
Jean Andrews
University of Texas at Austin Commencement 2003, 2003
As you start your journey, the first thing you should do is throw away that store-bought map and begin to draw your own.
Michael Dell
University of Texas at Austin Commencement 2003, 2003
Don't spend so much time trying to choose the perfect opportunity, that you miss the right opportunity.
Michael Dell
University of Texas at Austin Commencement 2003, 2003
Try never to be the smartest person in the room. And if you are, I suggest you invite smarter people — or find a different room.
Michael Dell
University of Texas at Austin Commencement 2003, 2003
Passion should be the fire that drives your life's work.
Michael Dell
University of Texas at Austin Commencement 2003, 2003
It doesn't matter that your dream came true if you spent your whole life sleeping. Whatever happens happens now, so live your life where the action is — now.
Jerry Zucker
University of Wisconsin-Madison Commencement 2003, 2003
Right at this moment in your life, you have nothing to lose. Everything you have acquired of value is locked inside you. If you have a dream, now is the time to pursue it, before you buy furniture.
Jerry Zucker
University of Wisconsin-Madison Commencement 2003, 2003
Nobody else is paying as much attention to your failures as you are. You're the only ones who are obsessed with the importance of your own life. To everyone else, it's just a blip on the radar screen.
Jerry Zucker
University of Wisconsin-Madison Commencement 2003, 2003
Love is the only thing that the more you give away, the more you have.
Jerry Zucker
University of Wisconsin-Madison Commencement 2003, 2003
True opportunity never knocks. I have found that I have to go looking for opportunity — and if I don't find it, I have to create it.
Sumner Redstone
Kellogg School of Management Commencement, 2002, 2002
Great success is not built on success. It is built on failure, frustration and sometimes even calamity.
Sumner Redstone
Kellogg School of Management Commencement, 2002, 2002