Ruby K. Payne > Quotes

“Vocabulary words are the building blocks of the internal learning structure. Vocabulary is also the tool to better define a problem, seek more accurate solutions, etc.”
― Ruby K. Payne, Bridges Out of Poverty: Strategies for Professionals and Communities

“To move from poverty to middle class or middle class to wealth, an individual must give up relationships for achievement (at least for some period of time). The issue is time. There is not enough time to have both.”
― Ruby K. Payne, A Framework for Understanding Poverty

“In 1980 the differential between the richest and poorest country in the world was 5:1 as measured by gross national product (GNP). In 2001 the differential between the richest and the poorest country in the world was 390:1 as measured by GNP.”
― Ruby K. Payne, A Framework for Understanding Poverty 5th Edition

“What Makes It Work-A Review of the Research Literature Describing Factors Which Influence the Success of Collaboration.
They describe collaboration as a mutually beneficial and well-defined relationship entered into by two or more organizations to achieve common goals. The relationship includes a commitment to: (1) a shared vision and mutual goals; (2) a jointly developed structure, shared responsibility, and agreed-upon methods of communication; (3) mutual authority and accountability for success; and (4) sharing of resources and rewards.”
― Ruby K. Payne, Bridges Out of Poverty: Strategies for Professionals and Communities

“Drucker was interested in the idea of building a strong, functioning society. He entered business and management because it was his belief that a healthy society needed responsible and effective organizations.”
― Ruby K. Payne, Bridges Out of Poverty, Strategies for Professionals and Communities

“In 1994 the median net worth of whites was $94,500, compared with $19,000 for people of color. By 2005 white median income increased 48% (to $140,500), compared with nonwhite median income, which increased only 31% (to $24,900).”
― Ruby K. Payne, A Framework for Understanding Poverty 5th Edition

“3.​What does your customer value?”
― Ruby K. Payne, Bridges Out of Poverty, Strategies for Professionals and Communities

“The nearly uniform advantages received by the children of the college-educated professionals suggest the evolution of an increasingly distinct subculture in American society, one in which adults routinely transmit to their offspring the symbolic thinking and confident problem solving that mark the adults' economic activities and that are so difficult for outsiders to acquire in mid-life. A trend toward separation into subcultures jeopardizes the upward mobility that has given this nation greatness and presages the tragedy of downward mobility that produces increasing numbers of working poor. If this trend is to be reversed, a beginning must be made now. The issue is no longer one of eradicating poverty or of putting welfare recipients to work but of reversing a trend, the downward drift of the working class.”
― Ruby K. Payne, Bridges Out of Poverty: Strategies for Professionals and Communities

“These are patterns that you see. These are why individuals use these patterns, and here is what you can do to help those individuals make the transition to the “decontextualized” environment of formal schooling, if they so desire to make that transition.”
― Ruby K. Payne, A Framework for Understanding Poverty 5th Edition