Quotes About Opportunity

Private sector development and the creation of small businesses spur investment, jobs, opportunity, and hope. It empowers the market to meet local needs, whether for food, basic goods, or services.

If you offer me a job sitting in a Winnebago with make-up girls and free food, I'm probably going to take it.

Local and regional food systems are about opportunity.

We live in the most amazing period in human history. We can have unlimited energy, unlimited food, provide education for everyone, clean water, all the things that have held mankind back.

A patient dog will have no bone to eat because other dogs have eaten

A BMW can't take you as far as a diploma.

It's easier to beg forgiveness than ask permission.

To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

The United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves whatever character draws a crowd or pays the rent.

For everything you have missed you have gained something else.

Every dog has its day but it's not every dog that knows when he's having it.

Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.

My country ... gave me schooling independence of action and opportunity for service. ... I am indebted to my country beyond any human power to repay.

Sometimes the best deals are the ones you don't make.

The real tragedy of life is not being limited to one talent but in failing to use that one talent.

Freedom does not mean being free of something, but to be free to do something.

Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

No borders, just horizons - only freedom.

Dream the impossible. Know that you are born in this world to do something wonderful and unique; don't let this opportunity pass by. Give yourself the freedom to dream and think big.

Everything is foreseen, yet freedom of choice is granted.

Freedom without opportunity is a devil's gift, and the refusal to provide such opportunities is criminal

The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.