Isabel dos Santos Quotes

I expect if you are going to come out of the shadows, then you're going to want to have some type of hope in the future that you're going to improve your life and, yes, accomplish that American Dream.

It's a powerful thing to know that you are empowering someone to lift themselves out of poverty.

Education brings about opportunity, and in turn inspiration.

The U.S. is where I was given the greatest opportunity to turn my life from a very nice one to an exceptional one.

I care about how many people's lives I've positively impacted. That's the unit of measurement I measure myself by.

I certainly feel my career was a great career because it inspired so many many people, literally hundreds of people to follow a new kind of life and to realize that they could make out and advance their own professional and private and social lives.

I'm probably proudest of being able to lift a lot of us out of the 'hood. That's the biggest thing, that I've been able to employ a lot of people and give them opportunities.

It means that through knowledge have come responsibility and hope, and through both, action.

If my idea was just to maintain a certain lifestyle, there would be no need to get a Ph.D. But I do care very deeply about the idea side as well.

Really, what education does is it gives opportunity, but it also gives hope.

I like school very much, and I'll go to college if my career slows down. But kids go to college to be where I am today. Not to put college down, but for me, it would be digressing.

If I had been at a University I don't think I would have been able to have the experience I had in my Smithsonian work. I don't think I have been as successful.

Just keep learning from the role and not just go for the money.

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one's children, and have a secure job to provide these and other goals.

Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities.

Labor should not be about creating monuments on hills or statues in parks. Labor's monuments and statues are when a young person can find a job, when a person with disability can get access to the ordinary life that others take for granted.

I would provide more opportunities for the kids of urban communities to go to school and learn trades - to get more jobs to take care of their families.

I did a bunch of blue-collar jobs, because I knew I'd wind up with a white-collar job at some point, and I wanted to, I don't know, I just wanted to taste life. I dug graves for a while, I worked as a stock boy in a big department store, I worked in a bank.

If we have a purpose in life beyond being a cog in the human machine, mine is to help inspire people and that's pretty cool. I would like to motivate the world.

Ultimately, I want to have a good career and do interesting work.

I think the end goal, hopefully, is to take advantage of the attention I've gotten along the way and use it for good and build some communities, and as I get older I can continue to do things and be surrounded by things that are inspirational to me.

Education is the first step on the ladder to economic empowerment.

What you earn is largely determined by what you learn.

Education and work are the levers to uplift the people.