Ivanka Trump Quotes

Some people can work their butts off and never get what they're aiming for while others can get it without any effort at all.

I went to school and made good grades and went to college. So I was afforded an opportunity through my parents' hard work that most people don't have.

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.

I grew up in this poor place, with very limited circumstances, at about 16 years of age was sent by my family to work, and instead of remaining in the position into which I was sent, I somehow worked my way out of it without any help from anyone, just luck.

The modern world is a meritocracy where you earn your own luck, old school ties count for nothing, and inherited privilege can even lose a guy a clear parliamentary majority.

If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are.

I am not a product of privilege, I am a product of opportunity

My father was raised in an orphanage, and my mother was an immigrant from Poland whose first childhood memory was of hunger. Somehow, despite all of that, I am called a member of the 'elite.' If so, I damned well earned it.

I never really grew up being political or Labour. It was just a realisation that where you were born mattered. That how you spoke mattered... who you knew mattered.

I had a pursuit different from others because they all came from downtown areas with money, but I didn't have any. All I wanted is to change my destiny with my own efforts.

According to bourgeois standards, those who are completely unlucky and unsuccessful are automatically barred from competition, which is the life of society. Good fortune is identified with honor, and bad luck with shame.

A rising tide raises all boats, but you need a boat to rise with the tide. What does he who does not have a boat do?

I'm not saying people shouldn't apply themselves and work hard. You do have to try to make your own luck. But I know people firsthand who worked incredibly hard, who were really smart, who never got into trouble, and still didn't get a break.

The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.

We have this myth that if you work hard, you can accomplish anything. It's not a very American thing to say, but I don't think that's true. It's true for a lot of people, but you need other things to succeed. You need luck, you need opportunity, and you need the life skills to recognize what an opportunity is.

People only look at you and say, 'You are black and you are from the banlieue,' and all the doors are closed. I had the desire to be something else. If I see a door that is a little open, I will find a way to get through.

Class still matters in Britain today.

What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way.

We were very poor and my family lost everything during the war - our home and our identity. But I'm a believer in luck and think the social conditions you're born into provide the opportunity for you to prove your luck. And I suppose I've been lucky.

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

I've worked really hard, but I know people who have worked even harder but didn't have the chances I've had.

The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.

Circumstances have rarely favored great men. A lowly beginning is no bar to a great career. The boy who works his way through college may have a hard time of it, but he will learn how to work his way in life, and will usually take higher rank in school and in after life than his classmate who is the son of a millionaire.

The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations.

In Britain, by contrast, we still think that class plays a part in determining a person's life chances, so we're less inclined to celebrate success and less inclined to condemn failure. The upshot is that it's much easier to be a failure in Britain than it is in America.