“I always wanted to be a musician from when I was kid. It was always a massive dream of mine. School was also really really important to me and having an education was top of my priority. So I really wanted to have a degree before I tried anything in the music industry.” ImportantDreamKidsWantedSchoolMinesIndustryDegreesMusicianPrioritiesMassiveMusic Industry Author:Emeli Sande
“I initially wanted to work in the music industry more on the A&R side. While I was in school, I began working in the New Business department of an advertising firm, and very quickly I was responsible for roughly 70% of their business, so you could say I had a natural knack for the advertising world.” WorldWantedSchoolSidesNaturalIndustryResponsibleAdvertisingFirmDepartmentMusic IndustryKnackNew Business Author:Adam Kluger
“Normal is fading away. Governments and industries and schools like normal, because it's easier, it scales and it's profitable. But people don't like it - we want to be who we are, not who some marketer tells us to be.” PeopleWantGovernmentSchoolIndustryEasierNormalScalesWho We AreProfitableFadingMarketersFading Away Author:Seth Godin
“You don't have to necessarily go down the drama school route, or have connections in the industry. You can just make it.” SchoolIndustryDramaConnectionsRoutes Author:Kaya Scodelario
“There is a lot of money to be made from miseducation, from the easy to read easy to learn textbooks, workbooks, teacher manuals, educational games and visual aids. The textbook business is more than a billion-dollar-a-year industry and some of its biggest profits come from 'audio-visual aids' - flash cards, tape cassettes, and filmstrips. No wonder the education industry encourages schools to focus on surface education.” YearsMadeSchoolGamesEasyEducationWonderFocusTeacherIndustryDollarsProfitEducationalSurfaceAidsBillionsCardsVisualsTapeFlashLots Of MoneyTextbooksManualsAudioCassettesAudio Visual Book:Marva Collins Way Source: Marva Collins Way
“Most of us who got into film industry in early 2000s weren't prepared for the constant vigilance that being a celebrity requires, and there's no school for learning how to handle it well or gracefully. It's a hard thing to figure out. A lot of people don't deal with it well because they're either too paranoid or they're doing things they probably shouldn't be doing in public.” PeopleWellsHardSchoolFilmDealsFiguresIndustryConstantPreparedHandleParanoidHard ThingsFilm IndustryVigilance Author:Megan Fox
“It is true you can be successful without [college], but this is a hard world, a real world, and you want every advantage you can have. I would suggest to people to do all that you can. When I dropped out of school, I had worked in the music industry and had checks cut in my name from record labels and had a record deal on the table, and when I wasn’t successful and Columbia said, ’We’ll call you,’ I had to go back and work a telemarketing job, go back to the real world, and that’s how life is. Life is hard. Take advantage of your opportunities.” PeopleWorldWantSaidRealHardSchoolJobsLife IsOpportunityNamesDealsSuccessfulRecordsCuttingCollegeIndustryAdvantageTablesChecksLabelsBeing SuccessfulReal WorldMusic IndustryLife Is HardColumbiaTrue YouRecord Labels Author:Kanye West