Quotes About Opportunity

Those who have the most wealth and the most property, their children have the first, the best, and the most.

Our main task is not to see that people of great wealth add to it, but that those without much money have a greater chance to earn some.

We have a wealth of talent in the Republican Party.

Business is one of the most powerful institutions on Earth for creating wealth and opportunity and helping to lift people out of poverty. When you think about it that way, then business is not separate from development policy.

We need to start talking about inequality again; we need to start talking about the inequities and unfairnesses and the injustices of an excessively divided society, divided by wealth, by opportunity, by outcome, by assets and so forth.

An Obama administration truly looking to break with the molds of the past would stop treating Africa as an obligation and start treating it as globalization's next great opportunity, understanding that Chinese - along with Indians and Arab sovereign wealth funds - are natural partners in this process.

More than ever, a college diploma unlocks economic opportunity, provides students with a wealth of new skills and knowledge, and encourages innovation and growth. But more than ever, it also comes with a mountain of student loan debt.

Investing is for wealth preservation, not wealth creation, so first you have to make wealth.

If we cannot provide excellent educational opportunities to all children, safe communities, quality health coverage, or robust and fair avenues towards wealth creation, then our nation will increasingly be in peril.

Ignorant people are apt to overrate the value of what is called education. The sons of the poor, having suffered the privations of poverty, think of wealth as the mother of joy.

In the fields of southwest Iowa, my parents and grandparents worked and sacrificed. Like so many Iowans, the American Dream for them was never about wealth or fame. Their dream was to leave their children and grandchildren a better life, with greater opportunity, than their own.

I hope to continue acquiring companies, not so much for the accumulation of wealth but because it's what I do well, and you always like to do what you do well.

We didn't create all this wealth; we capitalized on an environment that permitted us to create it.

For most Indians in America, wealth is not inherited. Neither do we make it as heads of large hedge funds and private equity funds. For us to make it to the top, we have to use our knowhow to create great new technology products and build high-tech companies.

I'm not against wealth; I just think everybody should have it, same as health.

I wasn't born to a wealthy or powerful family - mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.

The invention of the micro-loan was a big surprise to me. Who would have guessed loans of less than $20 made to poor people in undeveloped countries could create thriving local economies? And, even more surprisingly, that they more reliably pay off their debts than the wealthy of the world.

Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again.

I'm not going to do class warfare; I want to be wealthy.

Anybody can be going from being broke to being wealthy, as I did.

If the wealthy get wealthier, no one has to become one penny poorer.

Look, I'm not saying you can't make it if you grew up from a wealthy situation. I mean, a ton of people have.

The best thing about being immensely wealthy is not having to be in any particular place at any particular time doing a particular task you don't want to do.

Coming from where I came from, it was unimaginable to ever be wealthy. That was just too far out of my reach.