Quotes About Entitlement

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I'd be the biggest hypocrite if I said I really worked very hard for my career, because it was given to me on a silver platter. I can't take any credit.

I never felt entitled to anything. I'm the hardest worker I know.

Can a Congress worker ever think of becoming a Prime Minister? No. Because that seat is reserved by birth in that party.

Unsuccessful businessmen and workers do not have the same animus against the capitalist system as do the wordsmith intellectuals. Only the sense of unrecognized superiority, of entitlement betrayed, produces that animus.

I don't know so much about my boys, but my girls, they all work with me. They know how to work. My daughters know it's not done till it's done, even if it's three or four in the morning. I don't want them to grow up with entitlement.

Some calamities - the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, 9/11 - have come like summer lightning, as bolts from the blue. The looming crisis of America's Ponzi entitlement structure is different. Driven by the demographics of an aging population, its causes, timing and scope are known.

I'm tired of playing the brat.

This thinking that you can have every single thing you want in life is not the thinking of a feminist. It's the thinking of a toddler.

In my last year on Wall Street my bonus was $3.6 million," wrote Sam Polk in the New York Times, "and I was angry because it wasn't big enough. I was 30 years old, had no children to raise, no debts to pay, no philanthropic goal in mind. I wanted more money for exactly the same reason an alcoholic needs another drink: I was addicted." Polk

That boy may have been born on third base but he sure as shit ain't scored a triple.

Why do you think people cheat?," I asked. "Because they're bored? Because they can? Because they're selfish and think they're entitled to anything they want? Because they don't think they'll get caught?

One of the organizing principles of gentrified thinking is to assess everyone based on what they can do for you, and then treat them accordingly.

The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.

This is an empire called "narcissism.

You carried your own burden and very soon your symptoms of creeping privilege disappeared.

Last time I was sick, the guy I was seeing brought me a bottle of ginger ale… and expected me to pay him back for it. ~Jaime Vegas

Don't go around thinking the world owes you a living. It was here first.

The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.

Because the world does not deserve them.

When you wait you start feeling deserved.

Privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.

God bless the aristocracy. May they never learn to do their own plumbing.