Quotes About Equity

We're going to look awfully stupid if we give income tax relief to people who do not pay income taxes.

Taxes should be simple and fair... I'm not for increasing income taxes - if we even have an income tax.

People really have to believe in their tax system. They have to believe that there is an equitable distribution of the burden, but there is also an important investment based upon the potential achievements that come from us paying our taxes.

Teachers need to be paid like professionals.

Within a single school, teachers often encounter differences in poverty levels, parent involvement, and student readiness.

If we could reach the point where many of our nation's future leaders know what teachers know after teaching successfully in our highest-need schools, we would have a very different situation.

More often than not, the most effective leaders have been shaped by teaching successfully in high needs classrooms. Because of their experience, they know that it is possible for low-income children to achieve on an absolute scale and understand what we need to do to allow them to fulfill their potential.

Money buys the most experienced teachers, less-crowded classrooms, high-quality teaching materials, and after-school programs.

There needs to be more deliberate effort on the part of folks at VC firms to bring in a more diverse team of talent. You have to make a more concerted effort to bring in people who are different and who may not be in your network.

Yalta can be seen as neither the portal to Roosevelt's "world of justice and equity" nor a disgraceful capitulation to red fascism but, rather, an intricate nexus of compromises by East and West. Roosevelt "largely followed through on earlier plans, and gained most of what he wished," the historian Robert Dallek concluded

Fairness means everyone gets what they need. And the only way to get what you need is to make it happen yourself.

How else can you explain why the Street was bailed out with no strings attached? Or why taxpayers didn't get equity in the banks we bailed out—as Warren Buffett got when he bailed out Goldman Sachs—so when the banks became profitable again, we didn't get any of the upside gains?

Don't separate race from class. Racial discrimination is aggravating class divides, and wider inequality is worsening racial divides.

Coca-Cola's former president William Robinson, who in 1959 told an audience at Fordham Law School that executives should not put stockholders first. They should "balance the interests of the stockholder, the community, the customer, and the employee.

Don't get mad, get even

To think about fairness, think of economic life as a game - a serious game. All ideas about fairness can be divided into two broad groups. They are: - It isn't fair if the result isn't fair. - It isn't fair if the rules aren't fair.

You must know the difference between an asset and a liability, and buy assets.

If a young couple would put more money into their asset column early on, their later years would be easier. Their assets would have grown and would be available to help cover expenses. All too often, a house only serves as a vehicle for incurring a home-equity loan to pay for mounting expenses.

your money is tied up in your house

using a short is pretty safe in a down-trending market, and much more risky in an up-trending or sideways-moving market.

Don't be trying to give back pain for pain...You can't get even measures in business like this.

Don't be trying to give back pain for pain," he said. "You can't get even measures in business like this.

Heloise long ago reconciled herself to the idea that all is fair in love and war, which is just another way of saying that nothing in life is ever fair, because life is love and war.

Turnabout is fair play. Payback is a bitch.