Quotes About Opportunity

The reality is, if you were fortunate to be born to rich parents, you have a better chance of succeeding in life. And that's wrong.

Black women usually don't get the luxury of faking their way through life and still succeeding, but when a white guy does it, he may even get to be the president of the United States.

I think it's because in America you always get the sense that if you fail, you can just pack up your things and go somewhere else and try again. But in England, it's so geographically small that if somebody succeeds here, it reduces your chances of succeeding.

When women succeed, America succeeds.

My life has been a happy accident. Anybody who succeeds in anything should count their lucky stars, because that's the biggest element. It's not hard work; it's not necessarily talent.

Democrats have pushed for equal pay for women because we know that when women succeed, America succeeds.

We need the private sector to succeed, because if the private sector succeeds, America succeeds. Because it's not the government that produces jobs, it's the private sector.

Nobody succeeds on their own. Someone has to be there to show them the way, and if you give that experience to a person on the street - a gang member, a prisoner - he might succeed. That's how it was for me.

When someone around you succeeds, it does not mean they've taken that spot from you. What it means is that you are in the atmosphere of someone who is creating.

It's important for anybody who finds success to show other people where to find it.

Success is like a high-rise building I'm on the first floor. There are a lot of people in the basement or the parking lot but I was lucky enough to have made it to the first floor and I'm looking to make it to the penthouse.

Success is just around the corner, but I don't want to rush into anything.

I think success is what you make of it - of course there is always the factor of luck, but one should always be equipped to seize the moment when opportunity knocks.

I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?

This is America. Success is not guaranteed.

I don't think my success or me having the opportunity to have success is from our generation. I think it's from the generations before us. I think it's the fact that people like Martin Luther King and Medgar Evers and people like that fought for us to have the freedom to do and say what we want and have the opportunity to make money.

I know that my life is a miracle and because of that, I can't think my success is because I was so great at this, that or the other. A lot of things happened and came together. A lot of people went out of their way for me.

A startup is a company working to solve a problem where the solution is not obvious and success is not guaranteed.

Success is entirely accessible, even if you happen to be a huge screw-up 95 percent of the time.

Success is the American Dream. And that success is not something to be ashamed of, or to demonize.

Lesson from Pataki's success is: Use the political moment.

Success is freedom - scripts coming your way and getting to choose the stories you want to tell.

Success is based on music, not where you're from.

In a capitalistic society, success is determined by whether you can pay the bills.