Quotes About Opportunity

I am passionate about higher education and am hugely impressed by Portsmouth's mission to encourage students from every walk of life to excel.

Our mission is to empower people to experience the world.

We've always been about empowering people who feel like us and come from the communities that we come from and want to believe in our mission.

I still believe that the mission of Business 2.0 is very strong, very fundamental, and we're really at the beginning of where they're going to take us.

I felt that it was my mission to see to it that black talent had an opportunity to get national television exposure.

My mission is to let black kids know that their dreams can happen.

LinkedIn was an amazing deal for us to do because of their mission.

No university is the best place to execute every mission and no one company the best place to execute every mission.

It was the combination of hard work and a hand up that allowed me to become one of the first women to fly in combat missions and achieve my American Dream.

I was just a small boy from Mississippi, and now little kids are going to identify with me through this game.

It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have food, didn't have jobs, didn't have health care, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success.

When I moved to Mississippi, I was playing in high school, and there wasn't a lot of talent around me. I figured out that I wasn't going to be able to get to the bucket a lot anymore.

Mississippi is akin to an underdeveloped country.

We need a governor focused on job creation, bringing better and higher paying jobs to Mississippi.

As I grew older I began to realize that Mississippi really wasn't that bad. The basis for progress has always been there. And the opportunity is limitless.

We are fighting to bring more jobs to the people of Missouri.

Can you make a mistake and miss your fate?

I am a firm believer that you can make a mistake but that shouldn't define you. Everybody deserves a second chance.

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Make no mistake, blockchain will be a game changer, but it is not the answer to every business opportunity or problem.

Investors should invest on what they know. The biggest mistake is to invest on what they don't know.

I made a classic mistake. I held out for something better.

I decided if it was going to be a mistake to come to New York and try and make a career in fashion, then it was going to be my mistake... But the American dream is real. I'm living it.