Quotes About Opportunity

When you show the universe that you are willing and ready for action, it will start directing the opportunities and the right people your way. Therefore,

They truly respect those who do grunt work, so much so that they are willing to promote them if they show the aptitude to be promoted.

Unless life also hands you sugar and water, your lemonade is going to suck.

I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That's what happiness is.

If you don't take risks, there's no room for luck. I took a chance. I got lucky.

Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool, or you go out in the ocean.

The main issue is that putting yourself in a position to enjoy good luck also puts you in a position to lose.

But beyond fairness and productivity, the liberal argument also gestured toward a third, more potent ideal implicit in the case for markets: Enabling people to compete solely on the basis of effort and talent would bring market outcomes into alignment with merit. In a society where opportunities were truly equal, markets would give people their just deserts.

If meritocracy is an aspiration, those who fall short can always blame the system; but if meritocracy is a fact, those who fall short are invited to blame themselves.

It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of a social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position.

by making clear what is true in any case, that those who land on top do not make it on their own but owe their good fortune to family circumstance and native gifts that are morally akin to the luck of the draw.

Meritocratic sorting taught us that our success is our own doing, and so eroded our sense of indebtedness.

What matters for a meritocracy is that everyone has an equal chance to climb the ladder of success; it has nothing to say about how far apart the rungs on the ladder should be. The meritocratic ideal is not a remedy for inequality; it is a justification of inequality.

La capacidad de ascender, al parecer, no depende tanto del deseo de salir de la pobreza como del acceso a la educación, la sanidad y otros recursos que preparan a las personas para tener éxito en el mundo laboral.

Of those born poor in America, few make it to the top. In fact, most do not even make it to the middle class.

Enabling everyone to compete on equal terms was not only compatible with a market society but a way to fulfill its underlying principles. Two such principles were fairness and productivity. Eliminating discrimination and expanding opportunity would make markets more fair, and enlisting a wider pool of talent would make markets more productive.

But differences of talent are as morally arbitrary as differences of class.23

One is the frustration that arises when the system falls short of its meritocratic promise, when those who work hard and play by the rules are unable to advance.

Em condições de desigualdade desenfreada e de mobilidade social estagnada, a repetição da mensagem de que somos responsáveis pelo nosso destino e que merecemos o que recebemos corrói a solidariedade e desmoraliza aqueles que foram deixados para trás pela globalização.

Of those born poor in America, few make it to the top. In fact, most do not even make it to the middle class. Studies of upward mobility typically divide the income ladder into five rungs. Of those born on the bottom rung, only around 4 to 7 percent rise to the top, and only about a third reach the middle rung or higher. Although the exact numbers vary from one study to the next, very few Americans live out the "rags to riches" story celebrated in the American dream.37

Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.

Limits, like fear, is often an illusion.

In any investment, you expect to have fun and make money.

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.