Quotes About Opportunity

This formal system of racial preference was codified from the 1600s until at least the mid-to-late '60s, when the nation passed civil rights legislation, at least theoretically establishing equality in employment, voting, and housing opportunity.

Maybe life is a board game, but I never get to roll the dice.

Unexpected situations are often matched by unexpected virtues, are they not?

In the balloons of grandeur that kept Stephenson aloft, the presidency was just a few puffs of helium away. "Boys, I'm not in this for the money," he told his cronies. "You're going to put me in the White House.

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

I'll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

The fishing is best where the fewest go and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone is aiming for base hits.

Never let a good crisis go to waste. It's the universe challenging you to learn something new and rise to the next level of your potential.

You're not responsible for the hand of cards you were dealt. You're responsible for maxing out what you were given.

most people spend most of their time on defense, in reactive mode, in playing with the cards they got instead of moving to a different table with different cards. Instead

think of problems as gold mines. The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest business opportunities.

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. As

And if you say you're not creative, look at how much you're missing out on just because you've told yourself that. I think creativity is one of the greatest gifts that we're born with that some people don't cultivate, that they don't realize it could be applied to literally everything in their lives.

sometimes having no experience is a huge advantage. Age doesn't matter; an open mind does.

Time is wasted because there is so much time available.

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. As I have heard said, a person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have. Resolve to do one thing every day that you fear. I got into this habit by attempting to contact celebrities and famous businesspeople for advice.

Getting fired, despite sometimes coming as a surprise and leaving you scrambling to recover, is often a godsend. Most people aren't lucky enough to get fired and die a slow spiritual death over 30-40 years of tolerating the mediocre.

There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do. —BILL WATTERSON,

never let a good crisis go to waste. It's the universe challenging you to learn something new and rise to the next level of your potential. On the other hand, when not in crisis, I consider "my life is great" as a cop-out, a stuck place, where learning is no longer available to us. Which is why you shouldn't wait for crisis to happen before you take steps to go beyond what you're capable of seeing on your own.

Normalmente, lo que nos da más miedo hacer es lo que más necesitamos hacer.

That's precisely the question everyone should be asking, why the hell not? Why not you? Why not now?

Hay algo muy raro en una sociedad en la que toda la gente con más talento es guiada hacia los mismos centros de elite, donde acaban estudiando la misma cantidad reducida de asignaturas y llegando a un mismo número reducido de carreras.

I hadn't reached my limit; I'd reached the limit of my business model at the time. It wasn't the driver, it was the vehicle.

Three to five billion new consumers are coming online in the next 6 years. Holy cow, that's extraordinary. What do they need?