Allen Iverson Quotes

Coming from where I came from, it was unimaginable to ever be wealthy. That was just too far out of my reach.

When you come from the working class and you do well enough whereby you can provide a little bit better for your family, get a decent roof over their head and send them to a good school, that's considered a good thing.

I was well brought up, my parents are still together. I lived in a council estate, but I don't anymore; I saw my parents buy a nice house and move me to a nice area.

My background is that I came from a middle class family, and I think those values stay where ever you go.

You’re twice as likely to realize the American Dream if you’re growing up in Canada rather than the U.S.

We believe that housing is a power platform to spark great opportunities in people's lives and help them achieve the American dream.

I think about where I grew up and how I grew up: my dad was making $25,000 a year. Taking a chance wasn't really taking a chance. It was like you were going for something better. To me, there wasn't that much risk involved.

What is the deepest passion for me and for us is the historic investment in the middle class and in - as I say often because I was that guy growing up - the dreams of those who look up who want to get into the middle class. That I feel the strongest about.

As a kid, my dad moved us to the upper town, which was in a higher class of people, and we would see the lower town below. Every day, we could see where we came from and where we were now.

Low rents mean families have more resources to improve their quality of life and invest in the next generation, facilitating upward mobility.

With my middle-class metabolism, the suburbs were where I always wanted to be.

I'm a product of public housing. My parents grew up poor, but their dream was to own a home.

I felt like any other American kid. I already worked at a steady job as an ice cream scooper, but I didn't feel less in any way than my more affluent friends from school.

There is no greater ladder into the middle class than education.

The American dream, what we were taught was, grow up, own a car, own a house. I think that dream's completely changing. We were taught to keep up with the Joneses. Now we're sharing with the Joneses.

Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.

The minimum wage is not something that you want to stay on as a permanent basis. For example, if you have a minimum wage job, you don't stay there 20 or 30 years. You don't put your children through college working on minimum wage.

Money is a very important tool to make a big difference in people's life. It is positive or negative depending on the values.

The fact is that, except for those very few whose wealth is overwhelmingly or entirely inherited, the more affluent have usually worked harder than the less affluent.

The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.

I find it hard to be labelled in this new 'super-rich' category because we all grew up with very little. The idea that 'to get rich is glorious' is really a new phenomenon. I certainly didn't grow up like that.

The interesting thing about me is that I was born poor, and I've lived rich and I've lived poor, and I know how to do both. People think rich is better. I don't know.

I would say I came from upper middle class family.

The American dream is still to own your home.

If achieving the Hong Kong dream becomes a vanishing hope, then our society will suffer. What would the Hong Kong dream be? It's no different from the American dream, whereby an everyday man on the street who works hard would be able to make good savings and use those savings as equity for their future small business.