Quotes About Opportunity

People were fighting to try to train me. They saw a pot of gold, and they wanted to fight for it. But they seem too hungry. So I said if my father ain't training me, I ain't going to fight.

One of the things I most admire about America is they have created a genuine melting pot society, a country of opportunity; you can be of any religion, colour, ethnicity, persuasion and make it to the top of your chosen field. And that's something I admire about America and hope they continue with.

I didn't finish college; my parents didn't graduate college - we didn't have a pot to piss in. I'm from Newark, New Jersey. I had to work. I didn't think it would be possible for me to be an artist without having a job.

There's a deli around the corner from my office where I'd get a bag of chips with my sandwich, and I was hiding them under my sandwich because I was embarrassed. When I had this epiphany that I was hiding the potato chips from myself, I realized there was an opportunity there.

You don't really know when the last time you're going to do something is; the middle can often be a bit blurry. Firsts are very potent.

We are all born naked into this world, but each of us is fully clothed in potential.

American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.

Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk.

I saw Bitcoin as an actual market opportunity: as a trillion-dollar marketplace with long-term potential.

Every child deserves to grow up knowing their potential and feeling confident that they won't fall at the first hurdle - that they cope with life's setbacks.

Egypt has great potential because of the latent power of its human capital.

For millennials especially, mobility has become a key factor in selecting a potential career path and in choosing an appropriate employer.

If you are dim but have rich parents, a life of comfort, affluence and power is almost inevitable - while the bright but poor are systematically robbed of their potential.

Globalization obviously has the potential to be good. That doesn't mean it's good for everybody. There's a very large number of people in India and China who benefited directly from globalization, but it doesn't mean everybody in America benefits from globalization.

I am very proud to be an American. This country has so much potential, I'd just like to see things better, or whatever, and I think it will be.

Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.

There's much unlocked potential in Philips.

Across the globe, disadvantaged children are not living up to their potential because if they attend school at all, the schools are usually not designed to meet their extra needs.

There was a time when I felt that I was not getting work as per my potential.

We are not just a farming area, Africa has great potential and we are a developing continent.

I would have to consider the U.S.A. job if I was approached because it's one of the big nations in world football, with massive growth potential.

For Estonia, joining Europe meant our potential as a country increased - not decreased - because of that connectedness.

It took the United States until 1920 to give women the franchise and another 40 or 50 years to start utilizing women's potential. How many women of incredible potential did we fail and what achievements were lost to all because we never tapped that potential?

The Chinese economy has huge potential and flexibility.