Quotes About Opportunity

Information Age will be the age of upward mobility. It will afford far more equal opportunity for the billions of humans in parts of the world that never shared fully in the prosperity of industrial society. The brightest, most successful and ambitious of these will emerge as truly Sovereign Individuals.

With the advent of farming, human horizons expanded.

For better or worse, the societies of the twenty-first century are likely to be more unequal than those we have lived in during the twentieth.

In the cybereconomy, they will never see you. The ugly, the fat, the old, the disabled will vie with the young and beautiful on equal terms in utterly color-blind anonymity on the new frontiers of cyberspace.

Can't take a chance that one day, in one spot, somewhere, an exit might appear. We can't give up. Ever.

Okay. It's time for a cheese moment. You don't get these often. Are you ready for it?

Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.

We have already found a high degree of personal liberty, and we are now struggling to enhance equality of opportunity. Our commitment to human rights must be absolute, our laws fair, our natural beauty preserved; the powerful must not persecute the weak, and human dignity must be enhanced.

And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know.

It all came down to money - the great equalizer and common denominator.

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.

It will give them the opportunity to show themselves worthy of the respect and friendship of peace-loving nations, and in time, to take an honorable place among members of the United Nations.

Would appreciate your convoying (sic) the following to Joe DiMaggio in the event the Yankees don't pay more than $37,000: 'We cordially invite you to try out with the 143rd Infantry, 36th Division. The pay is only $21 a month but that's better than nothing. Please advise. P.S. Why settle for yesterday's salary?

Thousands of the Scotch-Irish began their New World careers as servants.

Do you want to come in? Take a deep breath. Everything is about to happen.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

when unemployment is high, inequality rises. And when unemployment is low, inequality tends to fall.

No excuses will lead to no regrets which will give you no limits to your potential.

The first test of ability and intelligence is to find a field of endeavor in which profits are large and risks small.

Perhaps we remember them, too, because their lives show us how malleable our own futures are. In their work we perceive how many loopholes fate has left us—how much of destiny is still in our own hands. In them, we see that nothing is predetermined. Chance can be on our side, if we but stir it up with our energies, stay receptive to its every random opportunity, and continually provoke it by individuality in our hobbies, attitudes, and our approach to life.

Everyone, young and old, must have access to the knowledge and skills to participate in the evolving economy.

Growing up, I wish that I'd had the supplies and laptops and all the new technology that's out right now.

Mistakes are the portals for discovery.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.