Quotes About Opportunity

It was a fortunate moment in history that I happened to be in. There was a confluence of the internet and all this other stuff that I was able to capitalize on.

Materially we must strive to secure a broader economic opportunity for all men, so that each shall have a better chance to show the stuff of which he is made.

Today - wealthier, more powerful and more able than ever before in our history - our Nation can declare another essential freedom.

History may well record that we served liberty and saved freedom when we undertook a crash program in the field of education . . .. I hope this bill is only the forerunner of better things to come.

Free enterprise is the best economic system in the history of the world, because it is the only system where you can make poor people richer and you don't have to make rich people poor.

What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else, the sand falls right into where you stood and you're gone, you're history.

I've told myself I have a chance to make history, and that's my focus.

The arc of our history is toward more equality being expanded to more and more people.

Barack Obama hopes his famous health care victory will mark him as a transformative president. History, however, may judge it to have been his missed opportunity to be one.

We cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure.

The way to build long-term returns is through preservation of capital and home runs.

Free government cannot long endure if property is largely in a few hands, and large masses of people are unable to earn homes, education, and a support in old age.

Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk.

We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we're only alive.

A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.

If I am going to get in a cab to go home, and I see a sign for an open house, I will go in. I like real estate because I am the boss.

Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?

Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk, whether it's starting a new business, whether it's leaving home, whether it's getting married, or whether it's flying in space.

Go big, or go home. Otherwise, you're wasting your youth.

A walk is as good as a home run.

Ain't that America, home of the free? Little pink houses for you and me.

Nothing great happens when you hold back.

I don't want to speak too disparagingly of my generation (actually I do, we had a chance to change the world but opted for the Home Shopping Network Instead).

If you never heard opportunity knock, maybe you're never at home.