Poor People Quotes - Page 17

• It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.

  Paul Farmer

  Country, Rich Countries, People

  "Founder, Partners In Health". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. July 03, 2009.

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• Rich people see opportunities. Poor people see obstacles. Rich people see potential growth. Poor people see potential loss. Rich people focus on rewards. Poor focus on the risks.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspirational, Loss, Opportunity

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• I believe that we can create a poverty-free world because poverty is not created by poor people. It has been created and sustained by the economic and social systems that we have designed for ourselves; the institutions and concepts that make up that system; the policies that we pursue.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Believe, People, World

  Muhammad Yunus' Nobel Lecture in Oslo, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2006.

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• The question is very understandable, but no one has found a satisfactory answer to it so far. Yes, why do they make still more gigantic planes, still heavier bombs and, at the same time, prefabricated houses for reconstruction? Why should millions be spent daily on the war and yet there's not a penny available for medical services, artists, or for poor people? Why do some people have to starve, while there are surpluses rotting in other parts of the world? Oh, why are people so crazy?

  Anne Frank

  Crazy, War, Artist

  Anne Frank (1989). “The diary of a young girl”, Pocket

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• Let me put it bluntly: anyone who says that money isn't important doesn't have any! Rich people understand the importance of money and the place it has in our society. On the other hand, poor people validate their financial ineptitude by using irrelevant comparisons. They'll argue, "Well, money isn't important as love." Now, is that comparison dumb or what? What's more important, your arm or your leg? Maybe they're both important.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspirational, Hands, People

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Apr 13, 2013

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• I can live well with what I have.I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor. Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle, and always want more and more.

  Jose Mujica

  People, President, Trying

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• Rich people use debt to leverage investments and grow cash flows. Poor people use debt to buy things that make rich people richer.

  Grant Cardone

  Cash Flow, People, Use

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• It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Badass, Agency, Views

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• Some people think that poor people are lazy. Actually, it takes a lot of work to survive when you are dirt-poor.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Thinking, People, Lazy

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• Liberals believe government should take people's earnings to give to poor people. Conservatives disagree. They think government should confiscate people's earnings and give them to farmers and insolvent banks. The compelling issue to both conservatives and liberals is not whether it is legitimate for government to confiscate one's property to give to another, the debate is over the disposition of the pillage.

  Walter E. Williams

  Believe, Thinking, Government

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• Rich people focus on what they want, while poor people focus on what they don't want.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspirational, People, Focus

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from May 24, 2011

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• Most poor people are not on welfare. . . I know they work. I'm a witness. They catch the early bus. They work every day. They raise other people's children. They work every day. They clean the streets. They work every day. They drive vans with cabs. They work every day. They change beds you slept in these hotels last night and can't get a union contract. They work every day . . .

  Jesse Jackson

  Motivational, Children, Night

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• There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Two, People, Deep Thought

  "The Devil and the Good Lord". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, act 4, sc. 5, 1951.

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• Rich people are bigger than their problems. Poor people are smaller than their problems.

  T. Harv Eker

  People, Problem, Rich

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• Do we know our poor people? Do we know the poor in our house, in our family? Perhaps they are not hungry for a piece of bread. Perhaps our children, husband, wife, are not hungry, or naked, or dispossessed, but are you sure there is no one there who feels unwanted, deprived of affection?

  Mother Teresa

  Broken Heart, Children, Husband

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.101, New World Library

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• I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot, to share it with the passion of Christ. I think the world is being much helped by the suffering of the poor people.

  Mother Teresa

  Beautiful, Passion, Thinking

  "The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice". Book by Christopher Hitchens, p. 11, 1995.

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• Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night

  Gloria Steinem

  Inspirational, Success, Night

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• People can change their own lives, provided they have the right kind of institutional support. They're not asking for charity, charity is no solution to poverty. Poverty is the creation of opportunities like everybody else has, not the poor people, so bring them to the poor people, so that they can change their lives.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Opportunity, People, Support

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• I was more than anything a radical. I was more sympathetic to Malcolm X than Martin Luther King because Malcolm X was more of a radical who was willing to confront discrimination in ways that I thought it should be confronted, including perhaps the use of violence. But I really just wanted to be left alone. I thought some laws, like minimum-wage laws, helped poor people and poor black people and protected workers from exploitation. I thought they were a good thing until I was pressed by professors to look at the evidence.

  Walter E. Williams

  Kings, Law, People

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• The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.

  Bill Vaughan

  Creating, People, Taxation

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• If you want to change who you are, begin by changing the size of your dream. Even if you are broke, it does not cost you anything to dream of being rich. Many poor people are poor because they have given up on dreaming.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Dream, People, Doe

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• Rich people think BIG. Poor people think small.

  T. Harv Eker

  Thinking, People, Rich

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• I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything.

  Emma Thompson

  Lying, Mean, Thinking

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• We have to have powder for our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  People, Wigs, Bread

  "The First and Second Discourses Together with the Replies to Critics and Essay on the Origin of Languages".

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• It's amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people yourself is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral, self-righteous, bullying laziness.

  Penn Jillette

  Bullying, Gun, Thinking

  Penn Jillette (2012). “God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

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