Quotes About Opportunity

If you want something,but you can't have it for now. Hold it, wait for the time and somehow, someday you'll get a chance that if you really want it you could have it.

Some very famous directors have started in the mail room, which is just getting inside the studio, getting to know people, getting to know the routine.

As the great golfer Ben Hogan once said, "Golf is a game of luck. And the harder I work, the luckier I get.

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Buy straw hats in the winter, when nobody wants them, and sell them in the summer when everybody needs them.

it's a good idea to remember that whenever there is a buy and a seller, somebody is wrong. Make sure it's not you

They bought blocks of bonds priced from 80 to 82 cents on the dollar, paying for them in bank notes worth half their face value!

None of us gets to choose how we're born, it's what we make of ourselves afterwards.

Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London.

In order for America to remain a global leader in innovation and opportunity, we must give our children a solid foundation in math and science.

Don't be afraid to give up the good for the great.

Do not be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

You know what I like about George Bush? He makes me feel like I could be president, too. No, he does. He's like the first guy, like, from my reading level, you know -- the first guy, like, from my math class to finally go out and do something!

You will never be allowed to buy the really good IPOs at the initial offering price. The hot IPOs are snapped up by the big institutional investors or the very best wealthy clients of the underwriting firm.

Finding the next Warren Buffett is like looking for a needle in a haystack. We recommend that you buy the haystack instead, in the form of a low-cost index fund.

Our nation is the enduring dream of every immigrant who ever set foot on these shores, and the millions still struggling to be free. This nation, this idea called America, was and always will be a new world -- our new world.

Equality begins with economic empowerment.

The longer our graduation lines are today, the shorter our unemployment lines will be tomorrow.

My view, is let Mike Dukakis go around there and talk about pink slips, despair, pessimism in the United States. I'll be the guy out there talking about hope and opportunity and challenge, and the fact that the United States is the best, the fairest, the most decent nation on the face of the earth. Let them apologize for America, and let me lead her to new greatness.

For the first time since World War II the international community is united. The leadership of the United Nations, once only a hoped-for ideal, is now confirming its founders' vision.... The world can therefore seize this opportunity to fulfill the long-held promise of a new world order.

America was targeted for attack because we're the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world. And no one will keep that light from shining.

You work three jobs? ... Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that.

We're creating... an ownership society in this country, where more Americans than ever will be able to open up their door where they live and say, welcome to my house, welcome to my piece of property.

Failure means that you would not, or could not, pay for success. Success is a matter of sale. It can (most often) be bought by a large outlay--of hard forethought--of pains--of steadiness--of the golden wisdom coined from experience. But the figure is too high for most of us. We are too poor, or too slothful, to bring the price.