Quotes About Opportunity

One organism's trash is another organism's treasure, as I like to say.

Bill O'Reilly

When I have a bird in my hand, I don't start looking for the bird in the bush

It's hard to do it because you gotta look people in the eye and tell 'em they're irresponsible and lazy. And who's gonna wanna do that? Because that's what poverty is, ladies and gentlemen. In this country, you can succeed if you get educated and work hard. Period. Period.

In this new century, our commitment to family and to faith, to community and opportunity, to freedom and to hope, will be the light that shines to lead us forward.

Leadership offers an opportunity to make a difference in someone's life, no matter what the project.

Success is never final, but failure can be.

Another principle: Although we all have at least the potential to make more money in the future, we can never go back and recapture time that is now gone. So it makes no sense to let opportunities pass us by for fear of squandering our money. Squandering our lives should be a much greater worry.

In other words, to get the most out of your time and money, timing matters. So to increase your overall lifetime fulfillment, it's important to have each experience at the right age.

The American Dream is still alive out there, and hard work will get you there. You don't necessarily need to have an Ivy League education or to have millions of dollars startup money. It can be done with an idea, hard work and determination.

Winning 'The Apprentice' changed my life in ways I could never have imagined. It has been an amazing experience working for Donald Trump and I am very grateful for the whole opportunity.

If I couldn't see the upside, I couldn't be bothered, and as soon as I couldn't see the upside in that job I started looking elsewhere.

Education enables people and societies to be what they can be.

The smartest thing we can do to create high-wage jobs and grow our economy is to keep our focus on education.

What's more important than who's going to be the first black manager is who's going to be the first black sports editor of the New York Times.

You never know when true greatness is lurking around the corner. Just make sure you don't forget the ones who already lurked.

What we discovered was that the only thing wrong with poor people is they don't have any money, which happens to be a curable condition.

Living and dying is not the big issue. The big issue is what you're going to do with your time while you are here.

Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.

The Vice Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.

Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up.

It is the life-affirming genius of baseball that the short can pummel the tall, the rotund can make fools of the sleek, and no matter how far down you find yourself in the bottom of the ninth you can always pull out a miracle.

Only silly Dorothys arrive in a magical land and want to go home. You don't want to be a silly stinking Dorothy, do you? They're reviled throughout every wondrous land. Did you know the name Dorothy translates as "squandered opportunity"?

Indecision with the passing of time becomes decision.