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When you're a child, you take things for granted. For instance, my mum didn't have a lot of money, but I went to piano, ballet and gymnastics lessons, and tae kwon do.

Just as an individual's ability to delay gratification at a young age is a powerful predictor of future academic and professional achievement, discipline is also central to the long-run economic health of nations.

At a young age, I had to give up a lot of things, like being able to hang out with my friends.

It feels important to go school; not necessarily to further my education, but more like a hobby.

I left school at 15 feeling fairly useless and not really up to scratch in my education. And I still suffer sometimes from that lack of education.

Instilling a sense of self-discipline and focus when the kids are younger makes it so much easier by the time they get into high school.

What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life.

When you're forced to watch something in school, you never really enjoy it; you sort of rebel against it in a certain way.

I hated school, didn't like the discipline.

After boarding school in Switzerland, at, like, 14 or 15, my life clicked, and I just realized, 'I don't want to be like anyone around me at my school. I don't think the world revolves around money.'