Quotes About Opportunity

I don't know what would have happened to Wal-Mart if we had laid low and never stirred up the competition. My guess is that we would have remained a strictly regional operator.

A future at Wal-Mart may sound a less-than-stellar prospect, but it's a whole lot better than no future at all.

Wal-Mart's slogan 'Save money, live better' promises a lot. So does its entrance into Chicago.

If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.

I have committed my life to helping the poor, and I believe that if more companies followed Wal-Mart's lead in providing opportunity and savings to those who need it most, more Americans battling poverty would realize the American dream.

If you think black people have a motivation problem, open up a Wal-Mart and advertise a thousand jobs. Watch 5,000 people show up.

If we care about the average working American, then Wal-Mart matters. A lot.

It's interesting: the letters I get from mayors that want Wal-Mart to look and invest in their community.

Someone asked me about what's it like managing 2.2 million associates, and I said, 'When they're Wal-Mart associates, it's not all that hard because of the quality and the depth of our talent.' I'm really proud of the fact that 70% of the managers in the U.S. started as hourly associates with our company.

I don't see anything Wal-Mart can do that other retailers can't.

Wal-Mart creates entry level jobs for people who don't have a lot of skills; those jobs don't pay a lot.

My next job after Wales, whenever that is, will be somewhere abroad.

Since I was 12 or 13, I have been taking movie meetings finding a project right for me because I wanted to try it. Craig gave us the script - it was set in Wales, it is really British humour. I just loved it.

If you make a film about a pig farmer in Wales and you are a huge hit as the pig farmer's wife, the next thing is you'll be asked to do a film about a sheep farmer in Scotland.

If I had my time again and was able to change one thing from my career then I wouldn't have retired. I would have played for Wales longer.

I want every person in New South Wales, no matter where they live, to feel that they have the choices and the opportunities to be their best.

When I wasn't in the Wales first team, I was always with the under-19s and under-21s and the coaches were always big on keeping the pathway open for us younger players to make our way up to the first team.

Playing for Wales or making my debut for Liverpool, it was excitement, a feeling of freedom even.

When I'm playing for Wales Under-21s I'm always trying to do my best so if the manager is watching he can see I'm playing well.

When Hull came calling it was a great, great move for me and when I went there I managed to get some goals and assists and get a senior Wales call-up.

I have managed at League Two and League One level and then went to Nottingham Forest for a short time as assistant when Gary Brazil was caretaker before going into the Wales U21 job and I have now been involved for four years.

At Birmingham, I was a pain in the backside for my manager Steve Bruce when I found out Blackburn wanted to sign me and it was a chance to play for Mark Hughes, a player I had idolised when he wore the red shirt of Wales.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

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