FastSaying

Everyone is told to go to high school and get good grades and go to college and get good grades and then get a job and then get a better job. There's no one really telling a story about how they totally blew it, and they figured it out.

Sophia Amoruso

Sophia Amoruso

AboutBetterBetter JobBlewCollegeEveryoneFiguredGetGoGoodGood GradesGradesHighHigh SchoolHowJobOutReallySchoolStoryTellingThenTotally

Related Quotes

For me, sports is a big part of my life. It helped me through high school. It helped me get better grades, because if you don't have good grades, you can't play sports.
— David Charvet
BecauseBetterBig
I flunked three grades before I got out of high school.
— Stephen J. Cannell
BeforeFlunkedGot
Every year, some 65,000 high school students - many of them star students and leaders in their communities - are unable to go to college or get a good job because they have no legal status.
— Gary Locke
BecauseCollegeCommunities
I've always been a creative speller and never achieved good grades in school. I graduated from high school but didn't have the opportunity to attend college, so I did what young women my age did at the time - I married.
— Debbie Macomber
AchievedAgeAlways
In 1941 I finished at Allison Intermediate School (grades 7-9), and started at North High School, commuting by bicycle about 5 miles from home to school.
— Vernon L. Smith
AboutBicycleCommuting