“Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants.” SchoolMotherFatherCompanyHigh SchoolFirmSecretaryGoing To WorkPrintingSalesmanMerchantsClerksWoolStationaryBookkeepers Author:Martin Lewis Perl
“Drug companies are a bit like high school boyfriends - they're much more concerned with getting inside you than being effective once they're in there.” SchoolBitsCompanyDrugHigh SchoolConcernedDrug Companies Author:John Oliver
“In my last two years in high school, my face was pocked with pimples, I stammered when I spoke; if I made a mistake, I blushed furiously, and when nervous, as I was in the company of girls, I perspired freely.” IfsLifeYearsMadeTwoSchoolLastsFacesSuccessGirlMistakeCompanyHigh SchoolNervousTwo YearsSpokesSuccess In LifeMade A MistakeI Made A MistakePimples Author:Joseph L. Mankiewicz
“When I was in high school, I was the guy directing plays after class. I started my first theater company at 19, and my second theater company at 21. I've always been a guy who doesn't do well with the passive nature of being an actor.” FirstsWellsPlaySchoolGuyActorsCompanyClassHigh SchoolTheaterPassive Author:Matthew Lillard
“Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.” PeopleKnowsSchoolCertainCommunityCompanyHigh SchoolTownsInstitutionsPublishingSmall Town Author:Alice Hoffman
“I've always loved the beauty world. Ever since I was a child, I looked at magazines and wore fragrances and tried out samples and sets. I worked at Clinique in the creative department for a summer during high school. And when I graduated from university, I worked at Prescriptives. My uncle [Leonard Lauder, chairman emeritus of the Estée Lauder Companies] smartly had wanted me to go into a small brand - to figure out what part of the company I loved. I discovered I was passionate about the creative process, the product development, creating a concept around a fragrance or lipstick.” WorldChildrenWantedSchoolProcessCompanyCreativeFiguresProductsDevelopmentSummerCreatingHigh SchoolConceptsUniversityPassionateMagazinesBrandsDepartmentCreative ProcessUnclesFragranceChairmanLipstickSampleProduct Development Author:Aerin Lauder