The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.

Most leaders spend time trying to get others to think highly
of them, when instead they should try to get their people to
think more highly of themselves.
It’s wonderful when the people believe in their leader.
It’s more wonderful when the leader believes in their people!
You can’t hold a man down without
staying down with him.
— Booker T. Washington

Most leaders spend time trying to get others to think highlyof them, when instead they should try to get their people tothink more highly of themselves.It’s wonderful when the people believe in their leader.It’s more wonderful when the leader believes in their people!You can’t hold a man down withoutstaying down with him.— Booker T. Washington

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.