Lee Iacocca Quotes

I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching.

For me, learning is a continuous process and an all-inclusive one - reading a book, learning a musical instrument or learning the martial art called taekwondo. Teach myself something new - that's my prayer.

Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write.

You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot, and the most valuable lessons of all are the ones you teach yourself.

First let a man teach himself, and then he will be taught by others.

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

I had no training in research as such, and as a consequence, I am, in a sense, self-taught.

Educate yourself as much as you can with life. Just go out there.

As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.

I'm not a trained actor. I'm someone who is autodidactic and learned on my own.

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.

I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.

I learned easily and had time to follow my inclination for sports (light athletics and skiing) and chemistry, which I taught myself by reading all textbooks I could get.

The background - your own history - is way more important than what you can achieve as a professional.

Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.

I am your original autodidact.

I think you just learn so much about yourself over the years.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

You are the best lessons you learn from life. I have grown up learning from my life.

I think that growth happens and that learning happens in anybody's life regardless of what profession you're in.

I do think we have collectively begun to conflate the institutions of education for education itself. Education is an individual's pursuit of understanding and has a lot of implications for that person, for the kind of person that they are.

I've learned a lot. I've seen a lot. I've grown a lot.

Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.

I think self-education is the greatest and best thing you could ever make.