Ivanka Trump Quotes

I am a young, white, educated male. I got really, really lucky. And life isn't fair.

Some young people can rely on a privileged background and great connections to get work experience, but I don't believe anybody can be guaranteed success nowadays.

Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.

I've spent my career trying to help people without connections understand what's going on so that they have a chance of getting a fair shake from the connected and the powerful.

I don't think anybody can claim success at any part of our lives, private or professional, if there are others that don't enjoy the same opportunities.

Early admission programs tend to advantage the advantaged.

It's them that take advantage that get advantage in this world.

We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained.

I don't want to take names, but there are some people who get everything served on a platter. This is a movie, this is your role, and you have to do it. Some people have to strive so hard to reach where they have and want to.

I don't think the world works on merit.

A meritocracy is a system in which the people who are the luckiest in their health and genetic endowment; luckiest in terms of family support, encouragement and, probably, income; luckiest in their educational and career opportunities; and luckiest in so many other ways difficult to enumerate - these are the folks who reap the largest rewards.

Don't get me wrong: I think that everyone should put forth an effort to do better, but let's face it, some of us are just plain luckier than others.

I never came into life with any favours or privileges.

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

We know that in our free market economy some will prosper more than others. What we don't accept is the idea that some folks won't even get a chance.

People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages.

I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?

Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.

If you get so unequal that people believe they don't have a chance, that the field isn't level for them and their children, that puts democracy at risk.

Demoralization is something I know a great deal about, all my life I have got something for nothing. That is entirely due to luck and I think a great many members opposite are in the same position. We have all got something for nothing. The question is: are we demoralized? I am not demoralized.

You are exacerbating inequality rather than opening up opportunity.

The market is not the society. Our societies are, of course, much, much more than the market. But lack of trust in the market can rub off on society so we lose trust in our society as well. And it may be the most important thing we have, trust. We can trust each other if we are treated as equals. If we are all to have the same chances, well, we all have to follow the same fundamental rules. Of course, some people and some businesses are more successful than others, but we do not trust in a society if the prizes are handed out even before the contest begins.

I'm convinced part of the reason I got signed is because of who I am, and it makes me sad.

Government cannot ensure equal results because every individual differs.

America is a meritocracy.