George Kaiser Quotes

#1. In the charitable world as in the business world, opportunities should drive budgets, not the other way around.

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#2. If you are born into poverty, the chances are good that your children will be born into poverty. Find a way to give poor kids the same cognitive stimulus that rich kids receive, and they should end up with the same tools for success.

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#3. During the desperate depression of the 1980s, there were no oil and gas companies without net operating losses.

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#4. I prefer doing things rather than sitting around talking about doing things.

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#5. I suppose I arrived at my charitable commitment largely through guilt. I recognized early on that my good fortune was not due to superior personal character or initiative so much as it was to dumb luck.

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#6. Rich, smart parents tend to have rich, smart kids - not because it's genetic but because they can create a home environment and sensory stimulation that lower-income kids often don't get.

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#7. America's 'social contract' is equal opportunity ... yet we have failed in achieving that seminal goal.

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#8. Naming rights are a seductive philanthropic inducement, yet more anonymous operational support may better advance the charitable purpose.

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#9. Those who have won the ovarian lottery by being born in an advanced society to loving parents have a special obligation to help restore the American Dream.

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