Quotes about Opportunity

I love entrepreneurship because that's what makes this country grow, and if I can help companies grow, I am creating jobs; I am setting foundations for future generations. It sends the message that the American Dream is alive and well.

I have nothing against employment but it seems that our school system is too focused on training good employees but not good entrepreneurs. There should be a balance. We should learn from the entrepreneurial mindset of the Chinese.

I feel like every day, every minute I have to make the most of.

I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798)

I firmly believe in luck. And I noticed: the more I work, the luckier I become.

All is safe where all can read, is a quotation from Thomas Jefferson showing his belief in the importance of everyone knowing how to and being able/allowed to read. I would like to take it one step further. I would say, All is BETTER when all can read. No matter what you like to read, the ability to read it, understand it, and enjoy it, truly enriches your life.

If you want something you've never had, you must be willing to do something you've never done.

It is a terrible thing to think of the grace that is wasted in this world

Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.

The Future… something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

You are never too old to dream a new dream or set another goal.