William Joyce Quotes

In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

For better or worse, the people who become leaders and decision makers in politics, law and business are going to come from schools like Princeton.

The incentive to ambition is the love of power.

It doesn't matter how much wisdom you have. If you don't have position, you have nothing. That's the tragedy of India.

There's no Peter York Foundation, and you're no one without one.

Somehow in the public sector, if you start in the mailroom and spend your life getting promoted, it's unseemly.

Elites quite naturally define as the most important and admired qualities for a citizen those on which they themselves have concentrated.

In this country there is no rank but rank mutton.

Keep up the middle class; lop off aristocracy on the one hand, and a rabble at the other; let the middle class ... have the power.

Every race gets the religion it deserves, and only as policemen, pugilists, and priests have they succeeded, here and there a successful lawyer, but nothing more serious.

The law as a profession has provided me with more satisfaction than I ever dreamed.

What a lot of people don't understand is, you can't really do nothing for power - you're either born with it or you aren't.

Asian parents, or a lot of parents in general, they have no idea what goes on in this industry. Mine were born in the Philippines, where it's different, because it is about who you know, and who knows what you have to do to get to the top? So they had a lot of that skepticism.

The road to hell is paved with Ivy League degrees.

I don't like to brag about it, but there are people I've worked with at the start of their career, and they've all become very, very successful.

The old Establishment has always preserved its position by not being too exclusive - it has been wily enough to absorb the up-and-coming and convert them to their attitudes and mannerisms.

Winning all these trophies and having all this success gives you a voice.

I don't need the fame or power.

I know some of the richest and most powerful men in the world, and they're jealous of me.

When you make people a lot of money, it gives you leverage in Hollywood.

The world doesn't reward talent, it mostly rewards those who are connected.

Arendt did have a certain snobbishness, though in some of her writing she expressed more democratic attitudes.

I've been very blessed to work with some of the biggest in the game.

Inequality is partly a marker of success.