Quotes About Equity

All kids—low-achievers, high-achievers, and those in the middle—deserve to have their educational needs met.

Every emendation of Anne's had been on the side of honesty against importance. She wanted more vigorous measures, a more complete reformation, a quicker release from debt, a much higher tone of indifference for everything but justice and equity.

Moral evolution, I think, is understanding how we should behave, how we should treat others, understanding justice, understanding the need for a more equitable society.

I don't think that artificial intelligence means doomsday, and I think many new jobs will be created, too. However, it is becoming increasingly unlikely that these new types of jobs will favor low-income demographics. We need to address the needs of those who will be left out of the new job market.

I support an equal playing field for plaintiffs and defendants - and the way to get that equal playing field is not by having unlimited discovery.

I think what we forget is that everybody loses when we keep unnecessary privilege. The cost to society overall is much greater.

Our combination of great research universities, a pro-risk business culture, deep pools of innovation-seeking equity capital and reliable business and contract law is unprecedented and unparalleled in the world.

Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.

I really did have a very egalitarian upbringing.

I very, very, very rarely lose my temper. I do get cross sometimes when encountering something that I feel is improper, that I feel is lacking in justice and equity, and this all sounds very pompous and over the top - but these are the things that really upset me: intolerance, prejudice etc. I suppose in more mundane matters, I'm impatient.

One of the members of the group, I can't remember which one, found out we were making $3 - $5,000 a night. We were getting a hundred dollars a week a piece. Everybody got upset about it.

Shareholders share in the downside and not necessarily in the upside; that's the whole story.

Teach for America recruits top recent college grads, young professionals, people we believe are the U.S.'s most promising future leaders, and asks them to commit two years to teach in high-need urban and rural communities.

I realized some time ago that, while there are really, really high quality schools in urban India - my daughter attends one - there are very few high quality schools in rural India. And that is mostly because of the perception that there are not enough people to pay a reasonable fee in rural India.

People of color face more barriers to health care, as do low-income individuals and those living in underserved rural and urban areas.

If a guy pays you five dollars, you give him seven dollars worth of work.

If one man has a dollar he didn't work for, some other man worked for a dollar he didn't get.

I think you pay people based on their work and not based on gender. It's that simple.

If you're honest and fair as you can be, not only in business but in life, things will work out.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do

What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.

Leaders create an environment in which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.

Some kids want to know why the teachers get paid when it's the kids who have to do all the work.

It's a poor rule that won't work both ways.