Bridges Out of Poverty 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

“3.​What does your customer value?”
― 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

“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

“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