Quotes About Opportunity

It's almost a blessing for a new generation to say somebody like myself went to their school. It helps kids dream, and now they're getting into acting, football, whatever.

Our pro-growth agenda of cutting business taxes and increasing opportunity continues to deliver results for the people of New Hampshire.

We want New Hampshire to be a haven for entrepreneurs and inventors - the people who are creating the products and good-paying jobs of the future.

If we really want to be the Live Free or Die State, we must ensure that New Hampshire is a place where every person, regardless of their background, has an equal and full opportunity to pursue their dreams and to make a better life for themselves and their families.

We will never stop emphasizing that New Hampshire is open for business, open for workers, and open for opportunity.

I love the challenge of new ideas.

If America wants to lead the world, it needs to make sure new ideas can get to market. More opportunity will birth more companies that create more jobs.

In addition to building the skills needed for the jobs of today and connecting individuals to these jobs, it is imperative to foster entirely new ideas and industries that will create the jobs of tomorrow.

I usually wait for opportunities and act on them if I like them or I like to really think through any new ideas I have.

I was raised poor, in a tenement building in Union City, New Jersey, the son of Cuban immigrants.

New Jersey shaped who and what I am. Growing up in Jersey gave you all the advantages of New York, but you were in its shadow. Anyone who's come from here will tell you that same story.

I went to my last three years of high school in New Jersey. I just wanted to act, you know?

I had just done what she does in the story just about a year earlier - I moved from New Jersey and came to New York and was working at a bar, and you know, trying to make it.

I landed in New Jersey, where I could barely speak English, and I had to figure out what a short brown kid was going to do in this big white world.

There are a great number of people from New Jersey who go on to have pretty successful careers.

If you grew up where I grew up, you would experience a very different criminal justice system than Camden, New Jersey.

I'm working with the New Dems, who are talking about the future of work, which is something I'm very interested in in New Jersey.

In New Jersey, you're able to live your life.

Every time you get into a new job, new location, you have an amazing opportunity in front of you. You get to play dumb for as long as people will allow you to play dumb. You get to ask all the dumb questions, you get to ask multiple people the dumb questions, and you get to make mistakes. That's how you stand out in the crowd.

People want something that's going to really separate them - something that will help them keep the job they have, get a new job, and advance their careers.

It's the NFL. It's simple. You either get it better or you have to look for a new job, so I think we all understand that.

Thanks to my new job, I got a front row seat. I crossed the country covering the race, first between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and then between Obama and McCain. It was the political story of a lifetime.

In the 1960s, if you could save $500, you had enough to move to another city and start a new life.

Some of the most important discoveries, innovations, and advances in our history have come from those seeking a new life in America.