When you try to please everybody, you're going to lose your ass.
speech graduation independence
Bobby Knight
Trine University Commencement 2010, 2010
Without the possibility of failure, there is no possibility of success.
speech graduation failure
Tim Cook
Auburn University Commencement 2010, 2010
Let your joy be in your journey, not in some distant goal.
speech graduation purpose
Tim Cook
Auburn University Commencement 2010, 2010
When there are better players around you, you get better.
speech graduation growth
Marissa Mayer
Illinois Institute of Technology Commencement 2009, 2009
Sharing leads to connections, connections lead to collaboration, collaboration leads to creativity and innovation. Creativity and innovation are what change the world.
speech graduation creativity
Marissa Mayer
Illinois Institute of Technology Commencement 2009, 2009
Any successful business reflects the combination of ideas joined with an important expression of love through service to other humans.
speech graduation entrepreneurship
Carl Schramm
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Commencement 2009, 2009
You don't have to be Bill Gates or Thomas Edison or Henry Ford to make a difference. Thousands of less famous entrepreneurs have done more than their part to enrich this country.
speech graduation entrepreneurship
Carl Schramm
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Commencement 2009, 2009
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Rise to their needs.
speech graduation empathy
Barack Obama
Arizona State University Commencement 2009, 2009
If wise men decline it, others will not; if honest men refuse it, others will not.
speech graduation responsibility
Robert M. Gates
University of Georgia Commencement 2009, 2009
It was too late for 'talk-teaching' — 'do-teaching would be a lot faster.'
speech graduation education
Robert M. Gates
University of Georgia Commencement 2009, 2009
Working for the earth is not a way to get rich, it is a way to be rich.
speech graduation nature
Paul Hawken
University of Portland Commencement 2009, 2009
Nations of technically trained people who don't know how to criticize authority, useful profit-makers with obtuse imaginations.
speech graduation education
Martha Nussbaum
Connecticut College Commencement 2009, 2009