Education
In high school, Worthington was named High School Athlete of the year in 1981 by the Houston Sportswriters and Sportscasters, and he is still one of the leading career scorers in Houston high school basketball history. The following year, he was the starting point guard for the nationally ranked basketball team at The University of Texas. He subsequently received his accounting degree, with honors, from Oklahoma City University and later received an MBA with a concentration in finance from Columbia Business School in New York.
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Famous quotes containing the word education:
“A good education is another name for happiness.”
—Ann Plato (1820–?)
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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—Fannie Barrier Williams (1855–1944)