success Quotes

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

Common Core is a big win for education.

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system.

Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.

The nuclear industry has this amazing record, even equipment from generations one and two. But nuclear mishaps tend to come in these big events - Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and now Fukushima - so it's more visible.

The Global Fund is a central player in the progress being achieved on HIV, TB and malaria. It channels resources to help countries fight these diseases. I believe in its impact because I have seen it firsthand.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you're glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue.

China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.