"An education is the investment with the..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.”

“As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.”

“When the well is dry, they know the worth of water.”

“We have so many issues today that we need to confront. Comprehensive immigration reform. We have to solve the issue of poverty, the issue of hunger, the issue of war - spending billions of dollars to kill rather than to build. We have to deal with the fact that all of our children should be receiving the best possible education.”

“The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world.”

“The right way to begin is to pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.”

“I'm always interested in understanding the math of things and understanding as much as I can about all aspects of business. And what I learn today may be useful to me two years from now. That's really the wonderful thing about investments is your knowledge is cumulative.”

“I'm not so optimistic as to think that you would ever be able to garner a majority of an American Congress that would make those kinds of investments above and beyond the kinds of investments that could be made in a progressive program for lifting up all people.”

“Both history and contemporary data show that countries prosper more when there are stable and dependable rules, under which people can make investments without having to fear unpredictable new government interventions before these investments can pay off.”