Quotes About Opportunity

Arme Leute können nicht wählerisch sein, oder? Bedeutet das auch, wer wählerisch ist, kann nicht arm sein?

Rosie honey, you're 25 years old, you've got at least ten years of your life left before it's over. You should get out there and enjoy yourself, stop letting the weight of the world rest on your shoulders.

I just know that there's a job for me at the end of the rainbow.

So that makes time more precious, doesn't it? More precious than money, more precious than anything. You can never earn more time. Once an hour goes by, a week, a month, a year, you'll never get them back.

There are no rules here, only possibilities!

What do you say to taking chances?

I am the youngest of 14 children, so I rarely got a chance to speak. If I have an opportunity for talking, I talk

Our career is one big series of undirected coincidences.

When the alternative is possible disaster, a man must gamble.

It seems I have always been fortunate to be in a certain provident, which must be my sole skill, and worth, and luck. [p. 138]

My father like all successful immigrants before him gently and not so gently exploited his own. This is way I learn business, this is way they learn business.

It's in the tilting and thrashing that we wangle our luck.

I felt like a car that had only been operated by one driver… a car its new prospective buyer was determined to take to the Daytona 500.

They say when one door shuts, another one opens. But they haven't been living at my house. Most of the doors I open seem to have something scary crouched behind them, anyway.

I would like to make sure, first of all, that our women in the informal sector - I mean, these are the farmers and the traders; many of them are not educated, many of them lacking literacy - be able to give them better working conditions. And we've done a lot to be able to achieve that.

Britain lacks that fundamental belief that anyone can make it. What we need is a British dream. Let's give young people the courage and ambition to go for it.

I was quite small as a lad compared to everyone else so I didn't stand a chance at Southampton. They told me one day that they weren't interested so I moved on. I just went away and enjoyed my football.

All I would say is it doesn't matter where you come from. Like, Jim Sheridan comes from the inner city, and he's one of the top ones, a top lad.

I want the fans to see this lad means business. I just need to get that chance.

I was only a 17-year-old lad when I played for Marsala, and while I didn't play much at Monza, that is where I met my agents, who are like brothers to me.

A woman who wants to go places needs to bring her own ladder.

The middle-class ladder has rungs that no longer exist for many trying to climb higher. Instead, for too many, in too many places, their chore is simply trying to hang on.

I came to America because this is a country defined by ladders of opportunity.

We need to conceptualize; we need to articulate conservative domestic policy with a laser focus on opportunity, on easing the means of ascent up the economic ladder.