Paul Tudor Jones Quotes

The biggest thing the money Infosys brought me is the freedom to do what I want. And what I want is to give millions more the opportunities I had.

When you talk about black entrepreneurship, you're talking about addressing the foundation of what's going on with our people when we don't have any financial power. Our basic needs aren't being met in a lot of cases, so there's no way we're going to be able to tap into our potential until we address those bottom-level base needs.

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

Equality begins with economic empowerment.

For my own part, I have been wont to converse with poverty; and however disagreeable a companion she may be thought to be by the affluent and luxurious, who were never acquainted with her, I can live happily with her the remainder of my life if I can thereby contribute to the redemption of my country.

I grew up poor. The fact that I had to struggle to succeed, that wasn't a big deal to me. I'd struggled my whole life.

There's no future in being poor.

I come from nothing. When I got a chance to make some money, I was like, 'Man, I'm not ever going back.'

Every thoughtful and kind-hearted person must regard with interest any device or plan which promises to enable at least the more intelligent, enterprising, and determined part of those who are not capitalists to cease to labor for hire.

It wasn't poverty that drove me on.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

I like struggle.

When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.

Don't blame Wall Street, don't blame the big banks. If you don't have a job and you are not rich, blame yourself!

What many economists fail to understand is that poor people are no less concerned about improving their lot and that of their children than rich people are.

The American Dream may be slipping away. We have overcome such challenges before. To recover the Dream requires knowing where it came from, how it lasted so long and why it matters so much.

If women had better access to the financial system - even so much as a basic deposit account at a bank - it would be a major step in the direction of greater wealth and greater economic empowerment.

The best way poor people can come out of their poverty is to get on the global highway, not on some dirt side road.

In order to counteract income inequality, it's essential to tackle poverty in an integrated way that has long-term impact. We need to give people the capacity to be resilient, to take on challenges and to learn the skills they need to work toward more prosperous futures.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

Preventing poverty beats curing it.

You cannot understand a man’s work by what he has accomplished but by what he has overcome in accomplishing it.

No, Islam did not lift American blacks out of poverty; capitalism did that.

The poor don't want some small life. They don't want to game the system. They want to contribute, and they want to thrive. But poverty reduces people born for better things.

I didn't want to be looked at as a below-the-poverty-line kid. But now I think, that trailer is where I got the ambition. The anger. If we had a better life, I wouldn't be here. That trailer made me.