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In my day job, I worry non-stop about making wise investments for long-term gains.
J. B. Pritzker
Day
Wise
Job
Worry
About
Investments
Day Job
Long-Term
Non-Stop
Making
Gains
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.
J. B. Pritzker
Education
Health
Quality
Care
Focus
Young
Resources
High
Rate
High-Quality
Dividends
Investment
Betting
Supporting
Know
Return
Health Care
Making
Very
Childhood
Children
Young Children
Pays
Early
Early Childhood
Guaranteed
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.
J. B. Pritzker
Education
Time
Financial
Decision
Tough
First
Politicians
Type
Tossed
Table
About
Tough Decision
Nod
Heads
Make
Trade-Off
Inevitably
Issue
Item
Then
Early
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.
J. B. Pritzker
You
Business
Will
Drive
Competitor
Changes
Market
Market Forces
Way
Out
Tell
Rather
Chase
Performing
Make
Forces
Up
Quickly
Efficiency
Improve
Owner
Any
Happen
Either
Cutting
Business Owner
Standards
Company
Things
Two
I am a lifelong Democrat.
J. B. Pritzker
Lifelong
Democrat
Am
ChicagoNEXT is focused on making Chicago the best possible place for technology entrepreneurs.
J. B. Pritzker
Best
Technology
Focused
Possible
Entrepreneurs
Making
Chicago
Place
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.
J. B. Pritzker
People
Money
Doubt
Think
Way
Backlash
No Doubt
Only
Alternative
Campaign
Against
Public
Elect
Raised
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.
J. B. Pritzker
Work
Money
Win
Election
Will
Oppose
Own
Other
Virtually
Spend
Unlike
Unlimited
Those
He
Make
Him
Sure
Makes
His
Trump
Very
Any
Candidates
Which
Race
Hard
Who
Amount
I have a lot of Republican friends.
J. B. Pritzker
Lot
Friends
Republican
My uncles and my aunts were outstanding. There's just no other way to say it.
J. B. Pritzker
Other
Way
Say
Uncles
Outstanding
Were
Aunts
Just
I think much of what you learn as a kid comes before age seven.
J. B. Pritzker
You
Age
Before
Think
Seven
Kid
Learn
Much
I was always fascinated by politics, and I was exposed to it quite a lot.
J. B. Pritzker
Politics
Always
Lot
Quite
Quite A Lot
Fascinated
Exposed
The key to America's economic future is educating kids as early in their lives as we can.
J. B. Pritzker
Future
Key
Kids
Economic
Economic Future
Educating
America
Lives
Early
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.
J. B. Pritzker
Mom
Our
Stay
Could
Had
Hotels
House
Executives
Coming
Up
Selling
Grew
Them
Rooms
CEOs
Persuade
Mom And Dad
Dad
Watching
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.
J. B. Pritzker
Good
You
Building
World-Class
Wealthy
Investment
Operation
Because
Any
Just
Just Because
Happens
Mean
Successful
Naturally
My wife and I were both very engaged in trying to defeat Trump. We knocked on doors in three states.
J. B. Pritzker
Wife
Three
Doors
Defeat
States
Both
Knocked
Were
Trump
Very
Trying
Engaged
We're trying to make money, trying to add a zero onto our net worth.
J. B. Pritzker
Money
Worth
Add
Our
Net
Net Worth
Onto
Make
Trying
Zero
Selling online is one channel, but it's not the only channel.
J. B. Pritzker
Channel
Online
Only
Selling
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.
J. B. Pritzker
Success
Better
Will
More
Entrepreneurs
Venture
Around
Chicago
Capitalists
Companies
Activity
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.
J. B. Pritzker
Time
Day
Me
Try
Job
Nights
Those
Kids
Mornings
Also
Parts
Bedtime
Fit
Really
Hard
Full-Time
Special
Full-Time Job
Many
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.
J. B. Pritzker
Me
Building
Dream
Entrepreneurs
Investing
Exciting
Idea
Participate
Very
Scratch
Where
Who
Things
I hate the term 'philanthropist.'
J. B. Pritzker
Hate
Philanthropist
Term
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.
J. B. Pritzker
You
World
Cares
Resources
Hundreds
About
Someone
Could
Make
How
Making
Making A Difference
Difference
Literally
Choices
Who
Who Cares
There are many successful startup funders who are looking for ways to make a difference in the world.
J. B. Pritzker
World
Looking
Startup
Ways
Make
Make A Difference
Difference
Successful
Who
Many
Let's help those in prison maintain positive connections with their community. If we truly want re-entry to be successful, and we do, people need to come back to a place that still feels like home.
J. B. Pritzker
Positive
Home
People
Prison
Community
Back
Those
Maintain
Feels
Come
Like
Still
Truly
Want
Place
Successful
Help
Connections
Need
If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
J. B. Pritzker
You
People
Nothing
President
State
Say
Complicit
Attacks
Governor
Represent
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