#poor

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#good #hand #holding #life #matter

My parents came from a poor background and worked their way up because of education. They saw it as a way to succeed. So they cared about me getting straight A grades when I was growing up. ↗

— Jennifer Garner

#background #because #came #cared #education

In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years. ↗

— Bill Gates

#asian #classes #concepts #few #lot

Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#even #harder #man #perhaps #poor

That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#africa #been #enough #even #great

The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poor house. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#find #generally #house #living #men

The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#money #nothing #poor #poorer #still

The constant need for special waivers is symptomatic of poorly written public policy. It's a signal that the cost of compliance is unreasonably high; the benefits are hard to measure; and either legislators or regulators have failed to do their homework. ↗

— John Sununu

#compliance #constant #constant need #cost #either

It is a poor cause which has to be lied for regularly. ↗

— Katherine Fullerton Gerould

#lied #poor #regularly #which

For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class, and the scope of opportunity offered to the poorest child to climb into that middle class. ↗

— John J. Sweeney

#breadth #child #class #climb #economy