Quotes About Opportunity

I'm very lucky. The public happens to like me. Maybe they like me because I use every opportunity to talk about injustice.

We remain a country where a young person's chance of fulfilling their potential rests on the vagaries of where they were born and what their parents do, rather than their innate talent and ambition.

We don't know: some little black boy or girl growing up in the inner city might grow up and cure cancer for all of us - if we let them do it.

Very often the best chance for a child in an inner city to acquire an excellent start in education is the church school.

I grew up playing basketball in the inner city of Seattle, and by the time I was a senior, I earned a full scholarship to the University of Denver.

Too many of our children are being left behind, especially in our inner city schools.

As kids, we all wanted a bike. But a lot of people don't have that opportunity, especially in the inner city.

You know where entrepreneurship in my opinion has to go? Into the inner city.

I love this sport, and I want people to have the opportunities that I have. I want the kid in the inner city to know that she can be a bobsledder one day, and I want the kid in the middle of Africa to know that she can be a bobsledder one day. So the more that we can go out there and grow the sport, the better.

In any inner city, there's not a lot of opportunities, and you really have to dig out and chase what you want to do, 'cos it's not handed to you, so.

I'm from the inner city of Buffalo.

There's not a lot of hope coming from the inner city.

If I've got a good pinch-hitter, I hate to have him stay on the bench with men on the bases in an early inning. He may end the game right there.

The fact is that you are never too old to innovate.

A company doesn't have to compete with Amazon. A company can instead innovate in sectors Amazon doesn't presently care about.

Innovation is the calling card of the future.

Innovation is serendipity, so you don't know what people will make.

Innovation actually demands freedom and freedom demands innovation.

In India, we have the opportunity to give innovation the kind of scale that no other country in the world can.

Innovation is so hard and so frustrating; it takes the intersections of people with courage, vision, and resources.

And innovation and entrepreneurship is the opportunity and best opportunity we have to grow the economy.

Open is something, I think, that will continue to drive a lot of innovation.

Time may not be on our side, but innovation is.

Legal immigrants have been an engine of economic growth, innovation, and entrepreneurship on this continent for longer than we have been a nation.