Unfair Advantages Quotes

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

In today's world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they're cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.

The world belongs to the wealthy, and nowhere is this injustice more apparent than in the workplace.

I firmly believe that talent and intelligence are universal, but resources and opportunities are not.

We have about 50% of the world's wealth but only 6.3% of its population…. we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment …

Instead of an aristocracy of wealth, of more harm and danger than benefit, to society, and scattered with equal hand throughout all its conditions.

My whole life, I've felt like I've always had to prove myself. It's never been easy, as easy as others who are in my position have had it.

Rising inequality leads to less sustainable growth.

No, I don't believe it's prejudice. I truly believe they [Blacks] may not have some of the necessities to be, let's say, a field manager or perhaps a general manager.

I looked up affirmative action once in Wikipedia, and it said, 'A measure by which white men are discriminated against,' and I got so mad.

The venture capital world is completely stacked against minority entrepreneurs.

I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.

Everything the working class has been told to do, the rich do not do. That is my message.

Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

Through pure accident of birth, I've managed to stay relatively youthful.

For some people, it's like I can't be a good actress because I grew up with a silver spoon.

When you don't have equality of opportunity because you don't have equal access to education, it just seems so outrageous. It weakens our economy and leads to more inequality.

I remember feeling guilty that I had a good childhood. I thought everybody who is famous has to have a desperate childhood and work his way out of it, but I had a great one.

In not having an appointment at Harvard, I'm in the company of a great many people whose work I admire tremendously, in particular women of color.

The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.

When you grow up in abject poverty, you see people exactly the way they are.

Tax the profiteers.

There’s a belief that something’s wrong if you don’t have what other people have—that it’s because you’re ‘disadvantaged.’ A teenage dropout mother is told she has a disadvantage. But if you’re going to call the negative consequences of chosen behavior ‘disadvantage,’ the word is corrupt beyond repair and useful only for propaganda purposes.

Frank stared at him. "Unfair? You can breathe underwater and blow up glaciers and summon freaking hurricanes-and it's unfair that I can be an elephant?" Percy considered. "Okay. I guess you got a point. But the next time I say you're totally beast-" "Just shut up," Frank said. "Please." Percy cracked a smile.

Opportunity seems to be color-coded here in America