Quotes About Equity

Because we are the largest lender in the manufactured homes sector and are also normally lending to lower-and-middle-income families, you might expect us to suffer heavy losses during a housing meltdown. But by sticking to old-fashioned loan policies — meaningful down payments and monthly payments with a sensible relationship to regular income — Clayton has kept losses to acceptable levels. It has done so even though many of our borrowers have had negative equity for some time.

In our book, alignment means being a partner in both directions, not just on the upside. Many "alignment" plans flunk this basic test, being artful forms of "heads I win, tails you lose.

I]magine that a 25-year-old first-year MBA student is considering merging his future economic interests with those of a 25-year-old day laborer. The MBA student, a non-earner, would find that a "share-for-share" merger of his equity interest in himself with that of the day laborer would enhance his near-term earnings (in a big way!). But what could be sillier for the student than a deal of this kind?

if we aren't happy owning a piece of that business with the Exchange closed, we're not happy owning it with the Exchange open.

Anyone can read what I read, this is a fair playing field

Although victimism can trace its lineage to liberalism, it is not itself liberalism. Nor is it updated Christianity. It militates against ideas of equity, fairness, and process; its natural tone is one of assertion of prerogatives, a demand for reparations.

use, mixed income, density, and transit.

Justice without mercy is tyranny, and mercy without justice is weakness. Justice without love is pure socialism, and love without justice is baloney. JAIME CARDINAL SIN speaking at a Prison Fellowship International conference in Nairobi, Kenya, 1986

I hope I'm always fair," said Mr. Coningsby, meaning that he couldn't imagine Eternal Justice disagreeing with him

There may be liberty and justice for all, but there are tax breaks only for some.

Vont er þeirra ránglæti, verra þeirra réttlæti.

The sun shines upon good and bad alike.

Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.

General rules will bear hard on particular cases.

and the sense of justice makes one wish to judge oneself before judging others.

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice.

Black Students, Middle Class Teachers by Jawanza Kunjufu.

Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.

People don't always get what they deserve in this world.

Life isn't fair," he said, in his undisguised voice, and for once the Baudelaire orphans agreed with every word the man said.

Education is about the distribution of knowledge... and to whom we actually distribute this particular commodity is a major question in this country.

Karma had everyone's address

Over the years, we have discovered that when it comes to leaving no child behind, highly gifted students are the most likely to fall through the cracks in American classrooms.