“If we stop thinking of the poor as victims or as a burden and start recognizing them as resilient and creative entrepreneurs and value-conscious consumers, a whole new world of opportunity can open up.”

Source: What Got You Here Won't Get You There, 2008, p. 125 (in 2010 edition)

Source: Prozac Nation

Source: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (2005), Chapter "The world as a polder: what does it all mean to us today?", section "Reasons for hope" (Penguin Books, 2011, pages 521-522, ISBN 978-0-241-95868-1.

Teaching as a Subversive Activity (1969)
Context: You cannot avoid making judgements but you can become more conscious of the way in which you make them. This is critically important because once we judge someone or something we tend to stop thinking about them or it. Which means, among other things, that we behave in response to our judgements rather than to that to which is being judged. People and things are processes. Judgements convert them into fixed states. This is one reason that judgements are often self-fulfilling. If a boy, for example, is judged as being "dumb" and a "nonreader" early in his school career, that judgement sets into motion a series of teacher behaviors that cause the judgement to become self-fulfilling. What we need to do then, if we are seriously interested in helping students to become good learners, is to suspend or delay judgements about them. One manifestation of this is the ungraded elementary school. But you can practice suspending judgement yourself tomorrow. It doesn't require any major changes in anything in the school except your own behavior.

quoted by Rick Orlov of the Los Angeles Daily News https://www.dailynews.com/2014/05/02/city-of-los-angeles-now-has-entrepreneurs-in-residence/ (May 2, 2014) <br class="br">2014

Listen Yankee (1960), pp. 144-145.
1960s

Maxim 185
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave

Think Like a Champion: An Informal Education In Business and Life (2009), pp. 16–17
2000s, 2009