If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu.
Interpretation
If you're not included in important discussions, you may be at risk of being exploited or disadvantaged.
This quote by Elizabeth Warren emphasizes the importance of having a voice and representation in decision-making processes. Without a seat at the table, individuals or groups may find themselves vulnerable to decisions made by others that do not consider their interests, often leading to detrimental consequences.
In practice
This quote can be used in a meeting to emphasize the importance of including diverse voices in policy-making.
Families rely on financial services more than ever, but those who need them most - who struggle to make ends meet - too often must contend with sky-high interest rates and tricks and traps buried in the fine print of their loan products.
There's been such a sense that there's one set of rules for trillion-dollar financial institutions and a different set for all the rest of us. It's so pervasive that it's not even hidden.
Mitt Romney is the guy who said corporations are people. No, Governor Romney, corporations are not people.
I talk to nurses and programmers, salespeople and firefighters - people who bust their tails every day. Not one of them - not one - stashes their money in the Cayman Islands to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.
'Middle class' used to be synonymous with secure, with steady, with boring, because middle-class people were people who were pretty much safe from the time they first started work on through retirement and until their deaths. No longer.
Does anyone believe that Goldman Sachs is gonna give up a deal that would yield millions of dollars because someone fussed at them behind closed doors?
The secret to gaining the upper hand in a negotiation is to give the other side the illusion of control. Don't try to force your opponent to admit that you are right. Ask questions, that begin with 'How?' or 'What?' so your opponent uses mental energy to figure out the answer.
Before she was a King, my mother was a peace advocate, a courageous leader, and an accomplished artist.
I have the consolation of leaving your kingdom in the highest degree of glory and of reputation.
Any person or organization depends ultimately on public approval, and is therefore faced with the problem of engineering the public's consent to a program or goal.
One can lead a nation only by helping it see a bright outlook. A leader is a dealer in hope.
My creed is that public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation with full recognition that every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration, that constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought, that smears are not only to be expected but fought, that honor is to be earned, not bought.
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