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with no money, food, or resources.
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The more I study the wealthy.. in an effort
to learn how to help more people around
the world become one of them.. I’m
stunned by how many people are actually
not rich.
David
Bach - Rich
- Learning
- Poverty
Public education is the key civil rights
issue of the 21st century. Our nation's
knowledge-based economy demands that we
provide young people from all backgrounds
and circumstances with the education and
skills necessary to become knowledge workers.
If we don't, we run the risk of creating
an even larger gap between the middle class
and the poor. This gap threatens our democracy,
our society and the economic future of America.
Eli
Broad - Education
- America
- School
- Knowledge
- Rights
- Economy
- Skills
- Class
- Poor
- Democracy
- Society
- Work
With a small fraction of the hundreds of
billions of dollars spent on the Iraq war,
the US and Australia could ensure every
starving, sunken-eyed child on the planet
could be well fed, have clean water and
sanitation and a local school to go to.
Bob
Brown - Money
- Poverty
- War
Terrorism isn't insanity. It grows out of social conditions that are well
known: poverty, social oppression, dictatorship, and a void of meaning in the
lives of ordinary people.
Deepak
Chopra - Life
- Poverty
- People
- Problems
The bottom line is that if I did it, you
can do it. I got rich without the benefit
of a college education or a penny of capital
but making many errors along the way. I
went from being a pauper.. a hippie dropout
on the dole, living in a crummy room without
the proverbial pot to piss in, without even
the money to pay the rent, without a clue
as to what to do next.. to being rich..
Felix
Dennis - Rich
- Money
- Inspirational
- Encouragement
- Education
- Mistakes
- Poverty
My major problem with the world is a problem
of scarcity in the midst of plenty ... of
people starving while there are unused resources
... people having skills which are not being
used.
Milton
Friedman - Poverty
- Greed
As our economy faces up to potential labour
shortages due to our ageing population and
as it moves to a new level of sophistication
to compete with the rest of the world, we’re
going to need every Australian on board
pulling their weight, rejoining the workforce,
gaining new skills.
Writing
off individuals and communities suffering
from poverty just creates a dead weight
for our economy to drag along.
Julia
Gillard - Jobs
- Australia
- Economy
- Education
- Skills
- Poverty
The concept of social inclusion in essence
means replacing a welfarist approach to
helping the underprivileged with one of
investing in them and their communities
to bring them into the mainstream market
economy. It’s a modern and fresh approach
that views everyone as a potential wealth
creator and invests in their human capital.
My reason for adopting such an approach
is simple: at a time when Australia needs
more skilled people and has an ageing population,
we simply can’t afford to have one
in ten or more of our people out of the
workforce due to unemployment, low skills
or the effects of chronic poverty. Social
inclusion is an economic imperative.
Julia
Gillard - Social
- Australia
- Economy
- Wealth
- Skills
- Poverty
- Help
- Employment
Money is human kind's greatest invention.
Money doesn't discriminate. Money doesn't
care whether a person is poor, whether a
person comes from a good family, or what
his skin color is. Anybody can make money.
Takafumi
Horie - Money
- Poor
- Motivational
It's easy to have principles when you're
rich. The important thing is to have principles
when you're poor.
Ray
Kroc - Rich
- Poverty
- Commitment
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition.
It asks too little of yourself.. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon
to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
Barack
Obama - Focus
- Ambition
- Money
- Poverty
- Encouragement
- Life -
Inspirational
It's hard to do it because you have got to look people in the eye and tell
them they're irresponsible and lazy. And who's going to want to do that? Because
that's what poverty is, ladies and gentlemen. In this country (USA), you can succeed
if you get educated and work hard. Period.
Bill
O'Reilly - Poverty
- Responsible
- Lazy
- America
- Success
- Education
I'm calling for all responsible Americans to fight back and punish Pepsi
for using a man who degrades women, who encourages substance abuse, and does all
the things that hurt particularly the poor in our society. I'm calling for all
Americans to say, hey Pepsi, I'm not drinking your stuff. You want to hang around
with Ludacris (a rap singer that Pepsi planned to use for advertising), you do
that, I'm not hanging around with you. Am I wrong to do that?
Bill
O'Reilly - Poverty
- Responsible
- America
- Encouragement
- Advertising
There are millions of children today who don’t attend school. However,
education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
Azim
Premji - Learning
- Encouragement
- Poverty
We need to make a game out of earning money. There is so much good we can
do with money. Without it, we are bound and shackled and our choices become limited.
Bob
Proctor - Earnings
- Money
- Good -
Decisions
- Poverty
Broke is normal. Why be normal?
Dave
Ramsey - Poverty
- Motivational
After losing everything, I went on a quest to find out how money really works,
how I could get control of it, and how I could have confidence in handling it.
Dave
Ramsey - Poverty
- Problems
- Money
- Mistakes
I grew up in a working class family where there was no health insurance. I
saw first hand the fracturing of the American dream and the bitterness that comes
when there is no hope and a lot of despair. So I wanted to build the company,
in a sense, that my father never got a chance to work for.
Howard
Schultz - Employee
- Family
- America
- Inspirational
- Poverty
- Companies
- Hope
It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor.
Seneca
- Poverty
- Greed
- Desire
Lack of money is the root of all evil.
George
Bernard Shaw - Money
- Poverty
I'm not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities,
and I want to help people see their community in each other.
Russell
Simmons - Change
- Politicians
- Help -
Poverty
I want to fight poverty and ignorance and give opportunity to those people
who are locked out.
Russell
Simmons - Change
- Help -
Poverty
- Opportunity
The conditions of suffering that exist today in our impoverished communities
are not acceptable. The reflection of those conditions are less concerning to
me. And I work everyday about changing the conditions.
Russell
Simmons - Change
- Poverty
- Hard Work
Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack
of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.
George
Soros - Poverty
I wanted to win to feed the hungry people of my community. I didn't want
to win to buy a diamond.. I didn't have no diamonds then. I didn't want to win
to buy a car, I didn't want to win to bring a couple of chicks downtown to a hotel.
I wanted to win to feed the poor people of the community.
Mr
T - Values
- Winning
- Philanthropy
- Poverty
Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can
perpetrate upon yourself.
Stuart
Wilde - Poverty
I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think
of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself,
and I had to make good.
Oprah
Winfrey - Responsibility
- Motivational
- Self
Help - Rich
- Poverty
I knew there was a way out. I knew there was another kind of life because
I had read about it. I knew there were other places, and there was another way
of being.
Oprah
Winfrey - Life
- Knowledge
- Poverty
- Encouragement
- Self
Control
My experience working in the Grameen Bank has given me faith; an unshakable faith
in the creativity of human beings. It leads me to believe that humans are not
born to suffer the misery of hunger and poverty. They suffer now as they did in
the past because we turn our heads away from this issue.
Muhammad
Yunus - Experience
- Banks
- Poverty
- Creativity
- Belief
- Potential
One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.
Muhammad
Yunus - Poverty
- Optimistic
I did something that challenged the banking world. Conventional banks look
for the rich; we look for the absolutely poor. All people are entrepreneurs, but
many don't have the opportunity to find that out.
Muhammad
Yunus - Banks
- Change
- Poverty
- Challenges
- Rich
- Entrepreneurs
- Opportunity
We create institutions and policies on the basis of the way we make assumptions
about us and others. We accept the fact that we will always have poor people around
us. So we have had poor people around us. If we had believed that poverty is unacceptable
to us, and that it should not belong to a civilized society, we would have created
appropriate institutions and policies to create a poverty-free world.
Muhammad
Yunus - Poverty
- Belief
I have come to believe, deeply and firmly, that we can create a poverty free
world if we want to. I came to this conclusion not as a product of a pious dream,
but as a concrete result of experience gained in the work of the Grameen Bank.
Muhammad
Yunus - Experience
- Banks
- Poverty
- Belief
- Dreams
Poverty has been created by the economic and social system that we have designed
for the world. It is the institutions that we have built and feel so proud of,
which created poverty them.
Muhammad
Yunus - Poverty
- Economy
- Capitalism
The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world.. all we have to do is
to free them from the chains that we have put around them.
Muhammad
Yunus - Poverty
- Encouragement
- Motivational
- Opportunity
- Potential
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