Quotes About Opportunity

The goal for the Laureus Sport For Good Foundation is to give kids an opportunity to be involved in sports and hopefully learn some lessons along the way. We want to put them in a safe environment, help them if they need it and maybe they will get a scholarship to a school because of the skills that they learn. Sport is just a starting point.

It's not a meritocracy until everyone starts with the same opportunities, is it?

Obviously it's true that as you go up the ranks, the number of women starts to decline. Whether that's because of 'self-deselection' or other barriers, I think that depends on the firm, the industry, and the person.

Infrastructure investments lead to jobs. And quality of life starts with a good job.

When the league starts you know that anything can happen.

I had two starts, really. The first was going to the Italia Conti stage school, aged 15. I'd gone to sing, but one day I found myself doing an improvisation and thought, 'Oh God, I quite like this acting thing.' The second start was meeting Mike Leigh when I was 22. He showed me I could play people that weren't like me.

The challenge starts when you first come to Mumbai. But it's momentary if you win an award.

You'll be offered the 'lead' in this new hot film with such-and-such A-list director, 'a fabulous part' - a fabulous part? A fabulous part is a character with a soul, who starts here and goes to there, you know? There aren't many of those.

Sometimes it's very hard for other New Orleans musicians to break out. It starts with the musician. They have to be willing to take a risk. Playing in the city, you can get comfortable. You think things are going well, but you're always in the city.

There are too many ways that a startup gig can go sideways. If the startup won't agree to hefty severance, pass.

Everybody should do at least one startup sometime in life. It's such an amazing ride.

I think the issues around diversity of all kinds are really a huge problem in the startup world.

A startup, to a some degree, is a set of those challenges of, 'If you don't solve this, you're dead.'

I wish I had known the value of interning at a startup before starting my own. There is so much I could have learned on somebody else's dime in a much lower-risk environment.

In a startup, there have to be challenges. Otherwise, someone else would have done it already. And that's almost the most exciting part.

I wish I'd known more about how to build a startup when I was younger.

I like the idea that I can make a big difference to a startup in a short period of time.

Startups often have to do dubious things.

The reason why we decided to put the focus on minority and women-funded startups is because this demographic of companies and founders is just underrepresented, they're under-invested in.

When people say they can't find African-American startups to invest in, it just sounds a little crazy to me.

I love working with really early stage startups where the outcome is still in doubt. Maybe they'll go on to greatness, or maybe they'll never get off the runway at all.

We believe that startups can be built anywhere.

If I had a do over, I'd indubitably start investing in startups earlier in life!

The only rollercoasters I get on are startups.