Quotes About Opportunity

There are 80 jobs in which women earn more than men - positions like financial analyst, speech-language pathologist, radiation therapist, library worker, biological technician, motion picture projectionist.

You have nothing that the humblest worker has not a right to have also.

Please remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker.

When I first came to NBC, I thought it was going to be swimming with the sharks, all men for themselves, be careful and all that. I have to tell you I learned that you can be kind and a hard worker and move up. You don't have to play dirty or do things that you think happens at big corporations.

My dad didn't graduate high school. My mom is a high school graduate. My mom is a factory worker. My dad owned a bar in the inner city.

As a son of Jamaican immigrants whose father cut sugarcane as a contract farm worker for over a decade and whose mother was a cook who fed those migrant workers out in the fields, the odds have always been against me growing up in rural South Bay, Fla.

When you cut investments in worker training, you're cutting investments in the middle class.

If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.

The number one thing I will take with me is my experience as a social worker who saw what happened to families who couldn't find jobs, struggled to take care of their health and saw opportunity slipping away for their kids. I ran for Congress because politicians were fighting with each other instead of looking out for these families.

Whether you're working in corporate America or you're a journalist, construction worker, a teacher or an actor - we're all trying to keep working. If one job is ending, you look for another job. When 'Psych' ends, I will be looking for another job.

Using the Internet to secure employment is as vital to a construction worker as it is to a software engineer.

Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about.

My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.

I was a blueberry picker, bindery worker, bookstore clerk and later manager, and a Realtor.

When my parents met, my mother was a waitress and my father was a dockyard worker. They were part of that post-war better-yourself generation, so they both went to night school.

My parents never went to college. My dad started as an hourly worker.

I don't want my mum to be a domestic worker any more because it is so exhausting.

Especially for the young and the lowest-skilled, minimum wage becomes a toll that prevents many from entering the work force and gaining the skills that can make a low income or middle class worker a high income worker. This is so obvious that one wonders why liberals keep championing the minimum wage cause.

Worker and worker protections, figuring out how someone can have a better shot in a global marketplace, has always been the stepchild of trade.

There's never been a better time to be a worker with special skills or the right education, because these people can use technology to create and capture value.

Can a Congress worker ever think of becoming a Prime Minister? No. Because that seat is reserved by birth in that party.

I feel like there are not a lot of us, in terms of African American owners or creators. I'm trying to get kids and communities to think not just about playing for the team, but owning the team. You don't always have to be the worker bee.

I was lucky to find a way to get a visa as an independent worker, which is hard to do. On top of that, I do live in the States, which means I'm not 'taking my skills back to Canada.'

My great grandmother, Martha, was hired at 11 years old to be a worker to people.