Quotes About Opportunity

'Success' is a seductive word. Thousands of books have been written on the subject. They promise money, freedom, leisure, and luxury.

Civil rights was not an impossible dream. Thousands of brave African Americans stepped forward to make it happen.

The TaskRabbit community provides thousands of individuals access to the kind of economy that puts them in charge of their own lives and income. TaskRabbit offers a new model of work, one that makes it possible for people to set their own schedules, establish their own rates, and use their talents and skills to earn a living on their own terms.

So many of my followers who just graduated can't get jobs; they're hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt, and they don't know what to do. My dream is to see a new generation of entrepreneurs who are creating and having more meaningful jobs than the day-to-day grind.

I've created tens of thousands of jobs over the years.

Every year, thousands of startups are founded - not only in technology, but increasingly also in health care, education, and energy.

In India, thousands of people want to be in the movies because Bollywood plays such a huge role in our lives.

How many times do you get to play in Portland in front of how many thousands of people? That's the kind of environment we want to be in.

I love the fact that I can make a podcast in my house and tens of thousands of people will hear it. I also like that it's gotten rid of a lot of gatekeepers.

I get to travel the world in front of thousands of people and get paid for it. It's pretty awesome.

You know, one of the disappointments about - for me, personally about being released - is that I left thousands of people behind. Now that 'For Life' is here, and here for everyone, it gives me the ability to touch millions at the same time.

The reality shows are a boon for thousands of people like me who have the talent but need to be spotted.

There's never been any game plan or thread through my career. It's just happened that I've ricocheted from one interesting character to another.

We see change as a challenge, not as a threat.

At no point was my career under threat, so I always knew that I would get back into action.

I really do think the things that make our society what it is are under threat. It should be about everyone having the potential to be what they're going to be.

What we achieved under General Petraeus up through 2011, and defeating this threat that we faced out there, I mean, once we decided to come out of there, we squandered an enormous opportunity that, frankly, the military did actually provide our nation and provided the Middle East.

When you're a large company with significant market share, it's tempting to view market disruptions as a threat, but we view them as an opportunity.

Asteroids are often seen as a threat, but they are also an opportunity. The use of space resources holds a large potential for future technological innovation.

Those who think that Brexit offers an opportunity to move to some low tax, almost off-shore de-regulatory haven don't seem to care about the threat posed by Corbyn.

Top-down government programs threaten to limit the freedom and opportunity that made this country great.

College costs continue to rise, and student loan debt threatens to price many Americans out of a college education and out of the middle class.

Whether we are talking about access to affordable birth control, feeling safe from violence in our homes, or being able to earn the same amount of money as our male counterparts, these are rights that all people deserve, and they are being threatened.

People seek change not only when threats and opportunities appear, but when we get tired of the ways things are.