Quotes About Opportunity

Malcolm Gladwell

The talent of essentially half of the Czech athletic population has been squandered.

Marita doesn't need a brand-new school with acres of playing fields and gleaming facilities. She doesn't need a laptop, a smaller class, a teacher with a PhD, or a bigger apartment. She doesn't need a hight IQ or a mind as quick as Chris Langan's. All those things would be nice, of course. But they miss the point. Marita just need a chance. And look at the chance she was given! Someone brought a little bit of the rice paddy to the South Bronx and explained to her the miracle of meaningful work.

We have, I think, a very rigid and limited definition of what an advantage is.

Everything we have learned in Outliers says that success follows a predictable course.

But as is so often the case with outliers, buried in that setback was a golden opportunity.

from centuries past, as well as contemporary billionaires, such

Their world—their culture and generation and family history—gave them the greatest of opportunities.

Malcolm Gladwell

It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of spe­cial opportunities that lead to further success.

iÅŸleriyle aralar?ndaki iliÅŸkide dönüÅŸüm yaratma f?rsat?.

To build a better world we need to replace the patchwork of lucky breaks and arbitrary advantages that today determine success...with a society that provides opportunities for all.

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance next time.

It's a success story here in Michigan. We have hiring going on. We have new industries going on.

Failure, failure is so important, it doesn't get spoken about enough, we speak about success all the time.

My parents told me that education was the path to success - and they showed me, taking me to Head Start while they were pursuing their own college degrees.

The true secret of success in the investment and speculative world is not so much which good securities to buy, but rather which investments to avoid.

Every moment in front of a customer is a gorgeous opportunity to live your values.

We Democrats believe in an America where no matter who you are or where you come from, you should have an equal shot at success.

One of the benefits of success with new songs is that some of the other songs will get a chance to see the light of day whereas they wouldn't have before.

Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can't afford to throw any young people away.

Don't be confused by what looks like luck to you. Lucky people don't make successful people; people who completely commit themselves to success seem to get lucky in life.

The path of the knowledgeable, successful person, which only leads to supreme good fortune and great success is always directly in front of you.

If there is one thing to get excited about, it's your ability to turn the negative into success.