Quotes About Opportunity

This century, the 21st century, will be the Indian century - and I really believe that.

Using his models, his computers look for moments when the short-term traders are moving opposite to the long-term investors-and then he bets that the imbalance will correct itself.

I have been applied to by several gentlemen to instruct their sons on very advantageous terms to myself, and a printer and bookseller here, a man of reputation and property, Robert Aitkin, has lately attempted a magazine, but having little or no turn that way himself, he has applied to me for assistance. He had not above six hundred subscribers when I first assisted him. We have now upwards of fifteen hundred, and daily increasing.

Americans could open doors to almost all that was admirable--it was their misfortune, not their fault, that movies and victrolas and advertisements squeezed in when they opened the door.

WATCH YOUR DOWNSIDE It's often said that opportunity is as important as risk. That's false. Risk can kill you or your project. No upside can compensate for that. For fat-tailed risk, which is present in most projects, forget about forecasting risk; go directly to mitigation by spotting and eliminating dangers.

Little beginnings sometimes have great endings.

Our youth we can have but to-day, We may always find time to grow old.

Set up a TimeBank Rotating Loan Club wherever anyone who has a cause, a dream, a vision of what they would like to change or what they would like to see happen could get a time commitment of 90 days to make that happen. Like Rotating Loan Clubs, everyone would have a chance to do that: I'll help with your cause for 90 days if you will help with mine. Imagine the possibilities.

When my parents arrived with a few trunks, a few dollars, and one kid -- me -- the bakery opportunity proved to be only half-baked. I'm glad. Otherwise, I might have been a baker and this might have been a cookbook.

There are many examples of women that have excelled in learning, and even in war, but this is no reason we should bring em all up to Latin and Greek or else military discipline, instead of needle-work and housewifery.

Due to their reluctance to tie themselves down at a young age, they have the capacity as well as the predisposition to be their own bosses and following their own dreams.

Üleminekud on alati ebakindlad ja ohtlikud.

Life is about taking risks, not about burying your head in the sand

it's such a privilege to not die prematurely

I thought that if the right time gets missed, if one has refused or been refused something for too long, it's too late, even if it is finally tackled with energy and received with joy. Or is there no such thing as "too late"? Is there only "late," and is "late" always better than "never"? I don't know.

Or is there no such thing as 'too late'? Is there only 'late' and is 'late' always better than 'never'? I don't know.

You can't become a billionaire stepping over children sleeping on the street.

We don't want to see our kids and grandchildren be the first generation in the modern history of America to have a lower standard of living than their parents.

when we talk about justice, we have to, in my view, understand that there is no justice when so few have so much and so many have so little.

In the richest country in the history of the world, every student who has the desire and the ability should be able to go to college.

If we truly intend to make America great, we will strive to be a nation that has eliminated poverty, homelessness, and diseases of despair, where hard work is rewarded with a living wage, and where those who are too old or too infirm to work are protected by a safety net that guarantees no American will be destitute. That's not a utopian vision or some foreign construct.

A college degree today is the equivalent of a high school degree 50 years ago. We need tuition-free public colleges.

The bottom line is that everything is connected to everything. Our political task is nothing less than the transformation of our nation. Health care for all, absolutely. But in order to create a healthy society, we also need to end poverty and provide decent-paying jobs for all people. We need a strong educational system, a clean environment, and equal opportunity for everyone regardless of their race, gender, sexual orientation, or nationality. These, in fact, are all health-related issues.

Maybe it's a radical idea, but I believe a job should lift workers out of poverty -- not keep them in it.