Quotes by George Kaiser - Page 1

I prefer doing things rather than sitting around talking about doing things.
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Sitting
Talking
Around
Prefer
Rather
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If you are doing what everyone else is doing, there is probably not an opportunity there.
George Kaiser /
Opportunity
Everyone Else
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America's 'social contract' is equal opportunity... yet we have failed in achieving that seminal goal.
George Kaiser /
Opportunity
Equal
Equal Opportunity
Social Contract
Achieving
Contract
Failed
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In the charitable world as in the business world, opportunities should drive budgets, not the other way around.
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Budgets
Business World
Charitable
Business World Way
Drive
Opportunities
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During the desperate depression of the 1980s, there were no oil and gas companies without net operating losses.
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Depression
Desperate
Gas
Oil
Companies
Losses
Net
Operating
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Naming rights are a seductive philanthropic inducement, yet more anonymous operational support may better advance the charitable purpose.
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Charitable
Philanthropic
Purpose
Seductive
Advance
Anonymous
Naming
Operational
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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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Lottery
Loving Parents
Obligation
Special
Advanced
Won
Restore
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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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Environment
Rich
Sensory
Smart
Stimulation
Genetic
Tend
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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.
George Kaiser /
Charitable
Commitment
Good Fortune
Guilt
Initiative
Luck
Due
Early
Largely
Suppose
Recognized
Superior
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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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Born
Cognitive
Poor
Poverty
Rich
Stimulus
Tools
Success Good Your
Same
Chances
Receive
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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.
George Kaiser /
Annoying
Months
Rich
Sat
Six
Smart
Stay At Home
Training
Read
Due
Fact
Held
Parents
Largely
Maybe
Moms
Perceived
Sent
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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.
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Age
Brain
Development
Dollars
Educational
Geometric
Influential
One Day
Progression
Appears
Month
Day One
Dramatically
Experiences
Formative
Spend
Hour
Point
Quoted
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Truly
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