Ian Schrager Quotes

I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script.

In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.

I believe education is the great equalizer.

Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to make something of themselves in adulthood.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.

The main force pushing toward reduction in inequality has always been the diffusion of knowledge and the diffusion of education.

Where the costs of entry are minimal, there is a wide avenue of opportunity for those with little or nothing, which is why football is just about the most democratic sport of all: African and Brazilian footballers compete on a level playing field with their rich white European counterparts.

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

We must restore the emotional relationship that people have to the idea of America, that no matter where you come from, no matter where you live, that you have access to the same opportunities that somebody who is born in privilege.

Conservatives often say that we should care not about equality of outcomes but about equality of opportunity.

The intelligent quest is for the free society with equality of opportunity. The quest for equality of result is the path to the widest equality of all: despotism.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Our goal is a classless society.

Education … is the great equalizer of all the other conditions of men.

To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth ought not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration.

When people are educated, class distinction disappears.

In a country where there is no privileged class, genius and industry may attain the highest honors.

America is a young country, with small inequalities of property, and without manufactures. Few people are here dependent on the rich, for every man has an opportunity of becoming rich himself…the people of New England enjoy an equality of condition unknown in any other part of the world.

As Americans, I think we really believe that with the meritocracy that exists in our country, the equality of opportunity is so important to the foundation of our culture and our society.

I feel passionately that the opportunities I have had should be available to everyone.

We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.

[E]very man, everywhere, should be free to develop his talents to their full potential - unhampered by arbitrary barriers of race or birth or income.

Every great idea is on the verge of being stupid.

Money is attracted to great ideas.

A genius is a man who has two great ideas.