Poor People Quotes - Page 5

• Its all big money, high rent, high prices in New York City now. The poor people completely got rolled over. I've never seen anything like it in my life. It's disgusting.

  Ralph Bakshi

  New York, Cities, People

  "Ralph Bakshi on Kanye West, NYC, and his new short, Last Days Of Coney Island". Interview with Ron Hart, film.avclub.com. November 14, 2015.

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• Judging foods without regard to price is a rich mans game, and yet poor people can be gourmets able to discern a good potato from a bad one.

  Mark Kurlansky

  Food, Games, People

  Mark Kurlansky (2013). “Choice Cuts”, p.26, Random House

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• There's an awful lot of misunderstanding here about what being poor actually means. I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything. It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly.

  Emma Thompson

  Lying, Knowledge, Mean

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• The extremists are talking too loudly, and everyone is convinced that only he is on the right side. It’s not just Jews against Arabs. It’s the Orthodox versus those who don’t think they can keep all six hundred and thirteen commandments of the Bible. It’s rich people versus poor people. At some point, something came over Israel so that everyone has his own ideas—and everyone else is an enemy. It’s a dialogue among deaf people and it is getting more and more serious.

  Reuven Rivlin

  Thinking, Israel, Talking

  "The One-state reality" by David Remnick, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 2014.

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• [Conservatives] go to church, they do lots of things for free for each other. They hold potluck dinners. ... They serve food to poor people. They share, they give, they give away for free. It's the very same people leading Wall Street firms who, on Sundays, show up and share.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Wall, Motivation, Inspiration

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• Budget cuts if you're not rich, tax cuts if you are. Less money for those who don't have any and more to those who do. That's how President Fredo says we're going to get out of the giant deficit hole he's dug. You can't put it any more simply. Rich people richer. Poor people poorer.

  Will Durst

  Cutting, People, President

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• We create institutions and policies on the basis of the way we make assumptions about us and others. We accept the fact that we will always have poor people around us. So we have had poor people around us. If we had believed that poverty is unacceptable to us, and that it should not belong to a civilized society, we would have created appropriate institutions and policies to create a poverty-free world.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Business, Believe, People

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• "The life of the union depends upon more people getting to share the limelight, because with the limelight also comes responsibility and with the responsibility comes a little sharing of the load." "There isn't enough money to organize poor people. There never is enough money to organize anyone. If you put it on the basis of money, you're not going to succeed."

  Cesar Chavez

  Responsibility, People, Unions

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• It would help the poor people who need jobs. Minimum wage is a mandate. We're against mandates so why should we have it? It would be very beneficial.

  Ron Paul

  Jobs, Crazy, People

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• I came to the realization that a strong female is frightening to everybody, because all societies are male-dominated, black societies, poor people, rich people, any racial group, they're all dominated by men. A strong female is going to threaten everybody across the board...

  Madonna Ciccone

  Strong, Men, People

  Spin Magazine, January 1996.

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• What is entrepreneurship, after all? Bigness is not the issue. Poor people are the ones who take challenges every day. The guy who sells a hot dog on the street is as much an entrepreneur as anyone else. Getting his $50 loan to start could be as difficult as finding $50 million for someone else. All people are entrepreneurs.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Dog, Issues, People

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• Rich people are wiling to act in spite of fear. Poor people let fear stop them.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspirational, People, Secret

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• Poor people and most of the middle class are not willing to be uncomfortable. Remember, being comfortable is their biggest priority in life... The only time you can actually grow is when you are outside your comfort zone.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Priorities In Life

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• The number one reason most people don't get what they want is that they don't know what they want. Rich people are totally clear that they want wealth. They are unwavering in their desire. They are fully committed to creating wealth. As long as it's legal, moral, and ethical, they will do whatever it takes to have wealth. Rich people do not send mixed messages to the universe. Poor people do.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspirational, Creating, Numbers

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Jan 15, 2014

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• Poor people either mismanage their money or they avoid the subject of money altogether.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspirational, People, Secret

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• Rich people work hard and believe it's perfectly appropriate to be well rewarded for their efforts and the value they provide for others. Poor people work hard, but due to their feelings of unworthiness, they believe that it is inappropriate for them to be well rewarded for their efforts and the value they provide.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspirational, Believe, Hard Work

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Jul 25, 2011

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• Rich people believe in themselves. They believe in their value and in their ability to deliver it. Poor people don't. That's why they need "guarantees."

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspirational, Believe, People

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Aug 15, 2011

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• Rich people believe "You can have your cake and eat it too." Middle-class people believe "Cake is too rich, so I'll only have a little piece." Poor people don't believe they deserve cake, so they order a doughnut, focus on the hole, and wonder why they have "nothing."

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspirational, Trust, Believe

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Feb 19, 2013

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• The direction of all economic affairs is in the market society a task of the entrepreneurs. Theirs is the control of production. They are at the helm and steer the ship. A superficial observer would believe that they are supreme. But they are not. They are bound to obey unconditionally the captain's orders.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Believe, Order, People

  "Human Action".

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• South Africa does not have a poverty problem. Poverty is a result of denialism of the way corruption taxes poor people, the inefficiencies that undermine poor people's opportunities and our refusal to admit that we are part of the problem.

  Mamphela Ramphele

  Opportunity, People, Way

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• Somehow, the fact that more poor people are on welfare, receiving more generous payments, does not seem to have made this country a nice place to live - not even for the poor on welfare, whose condition seems not noticeably better than when they were poor and off welfare. Something appears to have gone wrong; a liberal and compassionate social policy has bred all sorts of unanticipated and perverse consequences.

  Irving Kristol

  Country, Nice, People

  Irving Kristol (1995). “Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the principles we teach in our programs is "If you shoot for the stars, you'll at least hit the moon." Poor people don't even shoot for the ceiling in their house, and then they wonder why they're not successful.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspirational, Stars, Successful

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Feb 06, 2017

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• As long as there are rich people who have poor people they can send to fight their wars.. We will never have peace

  Chris Crass

  War, Fighting, Long

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• We can remove poverty from the surface of the earth only if we can redesign our institutions - like the banking institutions, and other institutions; if we redesign our policies, if we look back on our concepts, so that we have a different idea of poor people.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Ideas, People, Different

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• Policies are also to blame: the only thing that the governments and people can come up with to give to the poor people is charity. Poor people get hand outs from the state. But this is not a solution to poverty.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Government, Hands, People

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