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Quotes About Equity

I have a vested interest in increasing the amount of diversity in my own business. That's something that I care about. So mentoring people who are trying to break into the business who could use a hand, that's the type of person I look for.
~ Adam Conover
We are seeing a lot of cases where the startups are writing the term sheet, dictating the terms, selling common stock instead of preferred stock, where they don't give the investor veto rights or board seat or privileges, and they are really asking the investor -- why should I take your money when there is other money available.
~ Naval Ravikant
I think tax breaks for diversity is a good thing. In film now, what happens is you get huge tax breaks if you can prove via your hiring practices and via casting, that the film is British, you get a tax break. Wouldn't it be great if you got a tax break because the film was properly diverse?
~ Lenny Henry
Online education that leaves almost everybody behind except for highly motivated students, to me, can't be a viable path to education.
~ Sebastian Thrun
There's a creative vibe at U.C.B., and to maintain it, we can't pay people. If you pay, then you have to assign worth to shows, and then people will resent that.
~ Matt Besser
The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice.
~ Benjamin Tucker
We need society, and particularly the victims of crime, to believe justice is being done.
~ Chris Grayling
If we're going to have the view that we're going to protect everyone in this society equally, we have to mean it.
~ Loretta Lynch
The essence of global health equity is the idea that something so precious as health might be viewed as a right.
~ Paul Farmer
The balance sheet is made up of assets, liabilities, and equity. The P&L statement includes income, cost of sales, and expenses.
~ Unknown
assets = liabilities + owner's equity or
~ Unknown
owner's equity (net worth) = assets - liabilities Basically,
~ Unknown
In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity.
~ Locke John
Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.
~ Lord Acton
It isn't about being fair and equal. It's about the difference between right and wrong. He stared out at the bloody Elinarch. And this was wrong.
~ Jim Butcher
Planet Earth isn't a fair place. It's unfair in a broad variety of different ways, some worse than others, but it isn't fair. Not for anybody. And that's pretty much the fairest thing about it.
~ Jim Butcher
It isn't about being fair and equal. It's about the difference between right and wrong.
~ Jim Butcher
Nobody talked as much as Kiki did about the possibility of fairness.
~ Joan Silber
Equality is treating everyone the same. But equity is taking differences into account, so everyone has a chance to succeed.
~ Jodi Picoult
He who is merely just is severe.
~ Voltaire
That's how life is. Some dogs get treats for doing almost nothing, and some dogs are good dogs and get no treats at all.
~ W. Bruce Cameron
Just for once I'd like to see all these things sort of straightened out, with each person getting exactly what he deserves. It might give me some confidence in this universe.
~ Joseph Heller
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
~ Baron de Montesquieu
I'm Death, and I make sure that everyone is equal.
~ Jacob Grimm