John Schnatter Quotes

These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try.

When I was in the 9th grade I was flunking out of high school. And that's why I'm so encouraged by the fact that America is the place where opportunity and American exceptionalism is alive and well.

I'm the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test.

I graduated in biology by overcoming an incredibly impossible science workload in college. The knowledge does nothing for me, but knowing I achieved that makes me feel like I can achieve anything because those science classes in biology are just impossible.

The fact is I never was too bright in school. I just barely graduated. I had a D- average. I ain't ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do principals make a month?

In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia.

The truth is when I went to graduate school I would've said I was among the least talented of the students, I was certainly the least smart, or less educated. But I worked very hard.

I struggled many times when maybe it didn't look like I was struggling, and I had to work hard every day.

I wasn't academically successful. And maybe I've spent a lot of my career trying to make up for that.

When the time came for me to go to college, there was only one scholarship that my high school offered at the time and I didn't win that one, but that didn't stop me. I went on to college anyway. I worked my way through it and paid my student loans for 11 years.

I have felt for the last 10 years I have had this battle; I've been fighting so hard to have an education. It's been this uphill struggle. I was Warner Bros' pain in the butt. I was their scheduling conflict. I was the one who made life difficult.

I really appreciate an actor who has paid their dues and who has learned hard knocks and has been rewarded in the end.

And I say to you C students, you too can become President of the United States.

I always say getting my bachelor's was the single hardest thing I've done in my life. Once I got to university, I was working harder than I ever had before and, for the first time in my life, I was getting bad grades. It was demoralising.

Everything in life is a fight. Everybody wants this microwavable life, and it doesn't work like that. I'm here to say, 'See what I went through? Look at me now.'

I've had to fight to improve my life. Nothing has come easily.

I was a very studious student and usually got A's. I did not like school, because I wasn't popular - I was a nerd.

I think failing the qualifying or the 11-plus actually hurt me more than I realised. After I'd become a professor of physics at the Open University, I suddenly thought, 'This is a bit silly.' So I suddenly became much more open about it. But I think probably I was hurt by the failure and didn't want to talk about it.

I've carried my chip with me my entire career. I've had to fight and claw for every position I've had. I sat on the bench as a junior in high school, I had to compete my senior year in high school to get the job. I competed again at Vanderbilt before having success.

I never thrived in high school.

At school, I had to work really hard to get a D in maths. And I wasn't slacking off; I actually did work quite hard.

I had to work to where I'm at. I was not an athlete in school.

I grew up in poverty and my mother had to sacrifice a lot for us to eat and get an education - just imagine in a house where we were more than six children! But hard work and dedication is what it took for me to be here today.

I passed the 11-plus and went up to the senior school, where my two older sisters had already gone. I was in the 'A' stream, but in the third year, they asked me to give up Latin; no one had ever got 7 per cent before.

I come from zero and I've had to push myself up to where I am today. I'm not going to give up and I'm going to keep pushing.