Words matter. These are the best Laurene Powell Jobs Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I started getting more and more active around immigration reform because this was such a waste of lives, such a waste of potential, such a waste for our country not to have the human capital that we developed – geared toward improving our entire society.
Whether someone signs something is not what’s important. It’s what they do and how they do it that matters.
I much prefer STEAM to STEM. The insertion of the A is arts writ large, and when you learn how to think, that means that you actually need to understand how others have thought before you, how have others made sense of the world.
Broken institutions are an opportunity rather than a time to go home.
I’ve always had this idea that you have to make the most of things.
To do what you wanna do, to leave a mark – in a way that you think is important and lasting – that’s a life well-lived.
It’s hard when people die, but there’s something about when people die suddenly.
It’s not that our high school system was not designed well, but that it was designed in 1906 when the country was just out of the industrial era. There hasn’t been a substantial systemic change the way we do high school since then.
The innovation and creativity that’s so manifest in the rest of society needs to be turned on our school systems.
The beauty of having an LLC in today’s world is No. 1, you have the ability to act and react as nimbly as need be to create change, and you have the ability to invest politically, in the for-profit sector and the nonprofit sector simultaneously.
It’s our privilege to work with College Track students as they chart their course toward a college degree – they bring persistence, creativity, and extraordinary discipline throughout their academic journey.
That’s why our country is such a beautiful, beautiful experiment: We manifest, we allow freedom if you follow certain rules and if you work really hard. That’s at the root of our cherished values.
As a parent, you have to be good coach and bad coach, and I think in the college-application process, I didn’t want to be bad coach. ‘This is amazing! I’m so proud of you!’ That’s the role I wanted with my kids.
There is a huge gap between what students want for their future and what their schools are offering.
My relationship with money is that it’s a tool to be self-sufficient, but it’s not something that is a part of who I am.
