Sarah Lacy Quotes

My adopted parents were able to pay for me to go to a private school. So I had it better than most people.

I feel like I have the fortune of privilege, particularly as it relates to my children.

Ignorant people are apt to overrate the value of what is called education. The sons of the poor, having suffered the privations of poverty, think of wealth as the mother of joy.

Ariana Grande is a billionaire before she's been an artist. You have to work to be able to appreciate what you have... what work did she ever have to do in her life?

I was in a high school where everybody was a click better off.

I am a middle-class black, a college professor, far from wealthy, but also well removed from the kind of deprivation that would qualify my children for the label 'disadvantaged.'

It's just blind luck when a woman is born into a wealthy family and attends the best colleges and joins top sororities.

I think there's a certain sense of grounding that comes from not being a rich kid from a media-elite school.

If you happen to be in the right place at the right time, the capitalist system is a beautiful thing.

I've been very, very fortunate. I never had to work for a living.

The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.

If you're lucky enough to be raised in a rich family, good. But learn how to respect that luck. It's not a given, you know? It's not like, 'Well, it's normal'. No, it's not normal. It's lucky.

I consider myself to be very fortunate in my career, my timing has worked out.

Money can't buy poverty.

I was given a horn at an early age. I never really got a chance to think about doing anything else until I was about 18, when I realized I could do something else if I wanted to. In my teens, I was rolling in it.

It was always easy for me. I was born very rich and lucky.

When I go to Afghanistan, I realize I've been spared, due to a random genetic lottery, by being born to people who had the means to get out. Every time I go to Afghanistan I am haunted by that.

I'm blessed, I can afford to send my children to private school.

Money makes your life easier. If you're lucky to have it, you're lucky.

I was very lucky - it wasn't a question of being wealthy; my father was just extremely lucky with the couple of jobs he got. So we got a chance to travel when nobody else could travel.

We're all dealt with the same hand here, so to speak. I feel like I've had it a lot better than most people. I've had the opportunity to travel and play music all my life.

In America today, a young person needs more education after high school just to have a chance to make it in the middle class. Not a guarantee, just a chance to make it.

I appreciated being rich because it allowed me to study in Paris and Geneva.

Some feel as though the world is their oyster; others feel as though they were the oyster itself, plucked from the ocean, cracked open, and robbed of all that is precious to them.

Life's not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sandwiches by the loose chippings on the A597.