Quotes About Opportunity

I've always had to create my own markets and I've always been at a juncture in my career.

It is important to exhaust the potential of existing markets. But it is equally important to open up new markets.

Free markets are amazing.

I like free markets, but I do like fair markets.

We expect Seoul to be one of our most important markets not only in Asia but around the world.

People in emerging markets want to do business with the U.K. I don't see why the U.K. should be penalised for this.

Private markets, where everyone has an equal opportunity is the only system that works.

I'd love to work with Bruno Mars and Ryan Tedder.

I'd like to do something with Bruno Mars if we ever got the opportunity.

As an Asian man in the industry, you had to know martial arts.

Doors are very powerful things. Things are different on either side of them.

You can't be fussy when you're off to seek your fortune.

When there's need enough, a way can often be found.

Our mistakes are legion, but our talent is immeasurable.

Social scientists generally agree that students' families (especially family income, which determines advantages and opportunity) have an even bigger impact on student performance than their school or teachers.

If we continue on the present course, with big foundations and the federal government investing heavily in opening more charter schools, the result is predictable. Charter schools in urban centers will enroll the motivated children of the poor, while the regular public schools will become schools of last resort for those who never applied or were rejected.

Never let time be your master,' Bellman told Verney when he asked about it. 'If you want to do something, take it on. Time will always make itself.

Equality of opportunity is freedom, but equality of outcome is repression.

Impulses like that, I answered myself, that seemed to come from nowhere, they weren't really impulses at all, they were decisions already made but waiting for an opportunity to be spoken aloud.

Makes you wonder. When I left St. Louis, I was making five dollars a night. Now I'm getting $5,000 a week — for saying the same things out loud I used to say under my breath.

Every door of racial prejudice I can kick down, is one less door that my children have to kick down.

Entrepreneurs have a name for luck: they call it risk.

Again, the Latinos who became Americans in 1848 were not hurt; they were helped.

By contrast, Blanche K. Bruce was the real deal. Born into slavery in Virginia, Bruce was freed by his master and studied at Oberlin College before becoming a successful farmer and landowner. He is the only former slave to have served in the U.S. Senate.