Van Jones Quotes About Opportunity

Quotes about: Opportunity

• When you take the people who most need work and connect them with the work that most needs doing, you save. You save that young person’s life, you save a whole bunch of money, and you save the soul of this country when you invest and give people a chance, give people hope, give people opportunity.

  Van Jones

  Country, Opportunity, People

• We seem to forget that everything that is good for the environment is a job. Solar panels don't put themselves up. Wind turbines don't manufacture themselves. Houses don't retrofit themselves and put in their own new boilers and furnaces and better-fitting windows and doors. Advanced biofuel crops don't plant themselves. Community gardens don't tend themselves. Farmers' markets don't run themselves. Every single thing that is good for the environment is actually a job, a contract, or an entrepreneurial opportunity.

  Van Jones

  Running, Jobs, Business

  Van Jones (2013). “Rebuild the Dream”, p.187, Nation Books

• To shift America (and the world) to a cleaner energy economy, millions of people will have to go to work in new industries. This necessary shift opens up tremendous new opportunities for work and wealth creation.

  Van Jones

  Opportunity, America, People

  Source: rooseveltinstitute.org

• We tend to overlook the fact that a mature clean energy economy in fact will give an opportunity to ordinary people to earn more money as clean energy workers/entrepreneurs - and save more money, through conservation and energy efficiency.

  Van Jones

  Opportunity, People, Giving

  Source: rooseveltinstitute.org

• We should use the transition to a better energy strategy as an opportunity to create a better economy and a better country all around.

  Van Jones

  Country, Opportunity, Energy

  Van Jones (2009). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, p.19, Harper Collins

• The government also has to get the public rules right. That means putting a price on carbon, so the cleaner forms of energy become more competitive. As soon as that happens, a tidal wave of new capital, innovation and entrepreneurship will flood into the clean energy space - creating new jobs and opportunities for Americans of all walks of life. We did that for the internet, with public investments in the basic system through the Pentagon, followed by rules that encouraged innovation and competition. And that is why the internet took off in the United States first.

  Van Jones

  Jobs, Mean, Opportunity

  Source: rooseveltinstitute.org

• We have the chance to build this new energy economy in ways that reflect our deepest values of inclusion, diversity, and equal opportunity for everyone.

  Van Jones

  Opportunity, Diversity, Energy

  Van Jones (2009). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, p.17, Harper Collins

• The prospects of green economic opportunity is going to be determined to a great extent by politicians arriving at some sort of bi-partisan resolution.

  Van Jones

  Opportunity, Arriving, Green

  Source: aalbc.com

• Progressives are overreacting .Underreacting, though, to the - what the real threats are, and the real opportunities.

  Van Jones

  Real, Opportunity, Threat

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• That's one component: rather than creating job-training pipelines that put these kids at the back of the line for the last century's pollution-based jobs, we need to be creating opportunities for them to be at the front of the line for the new clean and green jobs.

  Van Jones

  Jobs, Kids, Opportunity

• [Donald Trump] has a tremendous opportunity, you know, this week, to come out and say I don't want that.

  Van Jones

  Opportunity, Want, Week

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• All the big ideas for getting us onto a lower carbon trajectory involve a lot of people doing a lot of work, and that's been missing from the conversation. This is a great time to go to the next step and ask, well, who's going to do the work? Who's going to invest in the new technologies? What are ways to get communities wealth, improved health, and expanded job opportunities out of this improved transition?

  Van Jones

  Jobs, Work, Technology

• Donald Trump never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity. Here's an issue where his concern is this line with public opinion, but the way he deals with it is actually puts him in a super minority in terms of people who are able to somehow bring himself to support his language and demeanor.

  Van Jones

  Opportunity, People, Support

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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