Quotes About Opportunity

My mom and dad put my brother and sister through university and they were very keen for us to have an academic background just to give us a chance.

It is said that if you give £500 to a rich person they could turn it into a million one day, and if you give £500 to a poor person they will turn it into an iPhone.

You've got a beautiful country with so many beautiful people and so many beautiful things happening and stuff like that lets it down. I feel sad for them.

Opportunity. In 1988 Bill Pattis joined Charles Z. Wick, Director of the U.S. Information Agency, and participated in the first U.S.-U.S.S.R. Bilateral Information Talks in Moscow, involving leaders from American media and Soviet counterparts. As a result of this work, he was named Chairman of the American Delegation for print media in follow-up talks with the Soviets in February 1990 in Washington, DC, and

On May 14, nineteen days after leaving St. Louis, the brothers crossed the Missouri River and landed on the town site of Omaha, then a community of cotton tents and shanties, where lots were being

on the town site of Omaha, then a community of cotton tents and shanties, where lots were being offered to anyone willing to build on them. They refused this offer and pressed on to their final

Errors carry the keys to your salvation.

Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you - if you don't play, you can't win.

The mystery is this: there is one right thing and only one right thing to do at every moment. We can either follow or resist the slender threads.

The first two steps of the path: the recognition of the preciousness of human life, which is endowed with liberty and opportunity, and the awareness of the immediacy of death. (p. 79)

Chance is another name that we give to our mistakes. And all of the best things in my films are mistakes.

Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.

The biggest risk in life is not risking.

The future is up for grabs. It belongs to any and all who will take the risk and accept the responsibility of consciously creating the future they want.

Life is; live it!

In investing, what is comfortable is rarely what is profitable.

In investing, what is comfortable is rarely profitable.

Public education's commendable aim of creating "equal opportunity for all" is too easily subverted by the egregious aim of creating a clean conscience for the few. If everybody can "read at grade level," then we need not be overly concerned if some people get to read fabulous dividend statements and other people, who may be working twice as hard, get to read pink slips. All we need hope is that the latter sort never get to read Marx.

What makes it possible for cooperation to emerge is the fact that the players might meet again

Two years of required public service would give young people an opportunity to learn civic responsibility by serving the common good directly. It should be a duty of citizenship. This is how we once regarded military service.

Education is a public good that builds the capacity of a nation to wisely govern itself, and promotes equal opportunity.

You've got to want to change, know how to change, and give yourself the chance to change.1

Don't believe the system is a meritocracy in which ability and hard work are necessarily rewarded. Today the most important predictor of someone's future income and wealth is the income and wealth of the family they're born into.

As I noted, jobs slowly returned from the depths of the Great Recession, but in order to get them, many workers had to accept lower pay than before.