Top 91 Quotes & Sayings by J. B. Pritzker
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Argentinian businessman J. B. Pritzker.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
It takes so long for the folks who are earning minimum wage to finally see a little bit of a rise... that it takes a little nudge, I think, from government.
None of our family businesses were focused on technology. It was '93 when I came out of law school, and the Internet was taking hold. So I started New World Ventures.
When you're someone who cares about making a difference in the world, and you have resources to do that, you have literally hundreds of choices you could make about how to do that.
The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center serves as a poignant reminder of our past and a trusted source of education for schoolchildren, community members, and visitors from across the country.
By definition, startups are not constrained by the limits of established company culture. And so they push boundaries and develop new technologies and ways of doing things.
Studies have proven that early childhood education returns to society as much as $12 for every dollar invested. Our goal is to identify the most important development opportunities for children five years and younger, providing insight to transform early childhood education from a social policy issue into an economic imperative.
Ending Iran's nuclear threat and bringing it into the international community of law-abiding nations is one of the most pressing U.S. foreign policy objectives.
I think much of what you learn as a kid comes before age seven.
Just because one happens to be wealthy, it doesn't mean you are naturally any good at building an investment operation that is world-class or successful.
I grew up watching my mom and dad selling rooms in our motels. We had CEOs coming to our house so that my dad could persuade them to have their executives stay in Hyatt hotels.
I am prepared to do whatever I can do and whatever is reasonable to make sure that it is Hillary who makes it to the White House and not Trump.
Setting a tone of inclusiveness and ensuring protection for all begins at the top, whether from the White House or the State House.
My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
Selling online is one channel, but it's not the only channel.
I do periodically ride a bus with my kids.
Illinois needs a single-payer health care system, and as governor, I will take the steps to get us there.
My uncles and my aunts were outstanding. There's just no other way to say it.
In the World Cup, people of many nations come together for a fierce competition. To field the best team, all the competitor nations know that they need to train their athletes for many years, starting as early as the first moments a child can recognize a soccer ball. No shortcuts. No late starts.
No matter how much wealth anybody has, family problems are about the same across the board.
The key to America's economic future is educating kids as early in their lives as we can.
I am a lifelong Democrat.
There are many successful startup funders who are looking for ways to make a difference in the world.
The people at the bottom who are working but working at relatively low wages need some help.
You, as an entrepreneur, must make sure the postmoney valuation is a number you can obtain. You don't want too high of a valuation.
Any business owner can tell you that if their company isn't performing profitably and up to standards, one of two things will happen: either you make changes to improve its efficiency, or a competitor will drive you out of business. Market forces have a way of cutting to the chase rather quickly.
My great-grandfather came here as a refugee from the pogrom in Ukraine.
ChicagoNEXT is focused on making Chicago the best possible place for technology entrepreneurs.
I've fixed the toilet. And I've been crawling in claustrophobic places... you have to deal with that when you become a homeowner.
I am so proud to have the endorsement of a distinguished leader like Glenn Poshard.
The idea of investing in entrepreneurs who are building things from scratch, where I can participate in their dream, was very, very exciting to me.
When you're governor, you've got to step up to the plate; you've got to make a proposal for a balanced budget. That's the requirement. And then you've got to sit down and negotiate if the folks that you need to work with disagree with you on points.
When candidates have asked me for support before, they have asked for more than a check.
I was always fascinated by politics, and I was exposed to it quite a lot.
Early education is the type of issue politicians nod their heads at, and then when it comes time to make a tough decision, a financial trade-off, inevitably it's about the first item tossed from the table.
I'm involved in issues, and issues are about grass-roots politics.
To me, the special parts of the day - and also the ones that fit with a full-time job - are bedtime and wake-up time. So I try really hard to be there for my kids as many of those nights and mornings as I can.
There's no doubt that there's a public backlash against the way campaign money is raised, but I don't think the only alternative is to elect people with money.
Trump can spend virtually an unlimited amount of his own money on this election, which makes him unlike any of the other candidates in the race. So those who oppose him will have to work very hard to make sure he doesn't win.
Let's remember that Bruce Rauner has every interest in getting stories out there that hurt Democrats.
Trump is an anathema to America's democracy and values.
The more activity around Chicago-based companies, and the more success that entrepreneurs have in Chicago, the better we as venture capitalists in Chicago will do.
I hate the term 'philanthropist.'
I come with bad genetics, personally.
Women should not be forced to accept sexual harassment as the price of admission to a life and career in the political world. They should not have to endure unwanted touching, innuendo, and propositioning from men in positions of power.
To end the pervasive culture of sexual harassment, it can no longer be the norm that men look the other way. It only ends when men actively participate in ending it.
Early childhood education is an urgent educational, economic and moral imperative. Without it, we face a long-term national economic security crisis.
Head Start has been a key component of health, nutrition and early learning opportunities since the 1960s.
Great law schools like Northwestern are here to expand the minds of their students, to allow them to achieve their personal goals, to enable them to contribute, to give back in ways that they could not without the education they receive here, and to help them make the greatest country in the world just a little more accessible, a little fairer.
Great success doesn't come in short periods of time.
In my day job, I worry non-stop about making wise investments for long-term gains.
Part of being a top-20 firm is mind-share.
I have a lot of Republican friends.
By legitimizing Iran's nuclear program, removing the pressure of economic sanctions, and allowing it to obtain conventional weapons and ballistic missiles, this agreement makes the prospect for war more likely, not less.
I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.
We're trying to make money, trying to add a zero onto our net worth.
There's a truth about public service that is often unspoken and rarely understood - that the role of our elected officials is about much more than balancing budgets and ensuring the delivery of essential services.
The fact that my father set out on his own to build Hyatt - a business the family was not in and a business he was learning about as he was building it - is instructive.
We like to invest in market leaders.
Whatever you build, you're building for the family - not with an eye toward getting away, but with an eye toward adding to the family pie.
My wife and I were both very engaged in trying to defeat Trump. We knocked on doors in three states.
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