George Kaiser Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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