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George Kaiser Quotes

American - Businessman | July 29, 1942 -

If you are doing what everyone else is doing, there is probably not an opportunity there.

Opportunity Doing You Everyone Else

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

Opportunity America Goal Achieving

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.

Success Good Children Rich End You

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.

American Dream Parents Society Help

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.

Home Smart Parents Rich Environment

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

Business World Drive Opportunities

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

Depression Oil Without Losses Gas

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.

Good Character Commitment Luck Guilt

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

Purpose Support Better More Rights

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

Doing Talking Sitting Things Rather

Truly, learning appears to be a reverse geometric progression with experiences at one hour, one day, one month or one year dramatically more influential and formative than later experiences. As has often been quoted, 85% of brain development takes place by age 3, and yet we spend only 4% of our educational dollars by that point.

Learning Age Day Brain Year Place

Maybe the perceived fact that smart, rich parents tended to have smart, rich kids was largely due to the fact that they also tended to have stay-at-home moms or nannies who read to their kids, held them, put mobiles over their cribs, playing those annoying ditties, and sent them off for SAT training at six months.

Training Smart Parents Rich Over

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