--- title: "1 Gateway Quotes By Jose Ferreira" description: "1 Gateway quotes by Jose Ferreira. Plus more from Jose Ferreira and more Gateway sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7a6/jose-ferreira-19118_among_education-is-among-the-most-important-pr_2442879.jpg" --- > [Education is among the most important problems we face because it's the ultimate 'gateway' problem. That is, it drives virtually every global problem that we face as a species. But there's a flip-side: if we can fix education, then we'll…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jose-ferreira/education-is-among-the-most-important-problems-we-face-because-it-s/) [Jose Ferreira](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jose-ferreira/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7a6/jose-ferreira-19118_among_education-is-among-the-most-important-pr_2442879.jpg) ## Other authors on Gateway ## More by Jose Ferreira > [It is intellectually dishonest to lump venture investors with hedge fund and buy-out investors.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jose-ferreira/it-is-intellectually-dishonest-to-lump-venture-investors-with-hedge/) [Jose Ferreira](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jose-ferreira/) > [Google, Facebook, and other consumer web companies violate our privacy. But that's only because they have an ad-based business model. They can only make…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jose-ferreira/google-facebook-and-other-consumer-web-companies-violate-our-privacy/) [Jose Ferreira](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jose-ferreira/) > [The San Francisco Bay Area has more VC firms and dollars invested than all East Coast cities combined.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jose-ferreira/the-san-francisco-bay-area-has-more-vc-firms-and-dollars-invested/) [Jose Ferreira](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jose-ferreira/) > [The factory model of education is a gargantuan bureaucracy. Some kids are good fits - I wasn't. The system gives you bad grades and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jose-ferreira/the-factory-model-of-education-is-a-gargantuan-bureaucracy-some-kids/) [Jose Ferreira](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jose-ferreira/) > [If I had to give one piece of advice to a budding entrepreneur, I would say: 'Aim big.'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jose-ferreira/if-i-had-to-give-one-piece-of-advice-to-a-budding-entrepreneur-i/) [Jose Ferreira](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jose-ferreira/) > [If your business had no risk, you could go get a bank loan and call it a day. VCs like risks - without them,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jose-ferreira/if-your-business-had-no-risk-you-could-go-get-a-bank-loan-and-call-it/) [Jose Ferreira](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jose-ferreira/) > [It's not enough to have a value-adding product in a big market. You also need the right conditions. Will you be able to scale…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jose-ferreira/it-s-not-enough-to-have-a-value-adding-product-in-a-big-market-you/) [Jose Ferreira](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jose-ferreira/) > [Jeff Bezos was one of those best and brightest who came to N.Y. to work in finance. He didn't need to know anything about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jose-ferreira/jeff-bezos-was-one-of-those-best-and-brightest-who-came-to-n-y-to/) [Jose Ferreira](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jose-ferreira/) > [I had started teaching because I love brainteasers. At some point, I had taken every standardized test out there - the SATs, the GREs,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jose-ferreira/i-had-started-teaching-because-i-love-brainteasers-at-some-point-i/) [Jose Ferreira](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jose-ferreira/) > [Immigration has defined my entire life. My parents left Mozambique with nothing but their wits in search of a better life for their kids.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jose-ferreira/immigration-has-defined-my-entire-life-my-parents-left-mozambique/) [Jose Ferreira](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jose-ferreira/) > [Stop pretending there's anything wrong with businesspeople hiring diligent laborers who will work for less. Let employers sponsor any worker and argue for why…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jose-ferreira/stop-pretending-there-s-anything-wrong-with-businesspeople-hiring/) [Jose Ferreira](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jose-ferreira/) > [Education has always produced an incredible amount of data; that's always been obvious to me. But technology had to catch up.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jose-ferreira/education-has-always-produced-an-incredible-amount-of-data-that-s/) [Jose Ferreira](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jose-ferreira/) > [No one cares how valuable your product is if its addressable market is small. The key isn't so much the number of users as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jose-ferreira/no-one-cares-how-valuable-your-product-is-if-its-addressable-market/) [Jose Ferreira](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jose-ferreira/) > [Venture capitalists buy minority positions in young companies they think will grow quickly; buy-out investors buy most or all of companies they think can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jose-ferreira/venture-capitalists-buy-minority-positions-in-young-companies-they/) [Jose Ferreira](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jose-ferreira/) > [I spent most of my career in education and technology. I worked at Kaplan, and I was one of the first people trying to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jose-ferreira/i-spent-most-of-my-career-in-education-and-technology-i-worked-at/) [Jose Ferreira](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jose-ferreira/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/gateway/jose-ferreira/#itemlist", "name": "1 Gateway Quotes By Jose Ferreira", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Education is among the most important problems we face because it's the ultimate 'gateway' problem. That is, it drives virtually every global problem that we face as a species. 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