“I am convinced that all this poverty in Mexico and in Latin America, like it's happening in China is the opportunity to grow. It's an opportunity for investment; it's an economic activity and to take out poverty is the best investment any person or a person can do in any place.” PersonsAmericaOpportunityGrowsCan DoPovertyEconomicActivityHappeningsInvestmentChinaConvincedLatinMexicoLatin AmericaBest Investment Author:Carlos Slim
“Competitive skills are desperately needed by poor children in America, and realistic recognition of the economic roles that they may someday have an opportunity to fill is obviously important, too. But there is more to life, and there ought to be much more to childhood, than readiness for economic functions.” MayChildrenImportantAmericaOpportunityPoorRolesEconomicChildhoodOughtNeededSkillsFunctionRecognitionSomedayRealisticReadinessMore To LifePoor Children Author:Jonathan Kozol
“The majority of America's colossal fortunes have been made by entering industries in their early stages and developing leadership in them.... Think of what opportunities the present and the future contain in such fields as ship-building and ship-owning, aircraft, electrical development, the oil industry, different branches of the automotive industry, foreign trade, international banking, invention, the chemical industry, moving pictures, color photography, and, one night add, labor leadership.” ThinkingHas BeensMadeDifferentAmericaMovingNightOpportunityStageFieldsBuildingColorDevelopmentIndustryPhotographyLaborTradeMajorityAddFortuneInternationalOilInventionShipsDevelopingBranchesChemicalsEnteringBankingOne NightElectricalAircraftColossalOil IndustryColor PhotographyForeign Trade Author:B. C. Forbes
“If I had the opportunity to say a fine word to all the young people of America, it would be this: Don't think too much about yourselves. Try to cultivate the habit of thinking of others; this will reward you. Nourish your minds by good reading, constant reading. Discover what your lifework is, work in which you can do most good, in which you can be happiest. Be unafraid in all things when you know you are in the right.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsTryingMindWould BeAmericaYoungReadingOpportunityCan DoToo MuchYouthFineHabitAll ThingsConstantRewardsUnafraidGood ReadingThinking Of OthersFine Words Author:Charles William Eliot
“Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.” ShouldLooksIdeasEndsMatterAmericaOpportunityNationsPromiseSucceedEqualEssentialsShould HaveWho You AreDetermineOutcomesEqual OpportunityWhere You Come Author:Barack Obama
“In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn't change policy.” IfsWorldAmericaOpportunityLeftBehindsPolicyResearchCellsBritainStemLeft BehindGreat OpportunityStem CellStem Cell Research Author:Stephen Hawking
“America guarantees equal opportunity, not equal outcome.” AmericaOpportunityEqualOutcomesGuaranteesEqual Opportunity Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Trump is the candidate giving voice to untold millions of fed-up Americans witnessing a purposeful destruction of our economy and the equal opportunity for success that made America exceptional, we're watching career politicians throw away our kids' future through bankrupting public budgets and ripping open our porous borders which, obvious to all us non-politicians, puts us at great risk.” GivingMadeKidsAmericaSuccessOpportunityVoiceCareersMillionsEconomyRiskTrumpPoliticianEqualDestructionObviousBudgetsBordersCandidatesFedsExceptionalFed UpEqual OpportunityGreat RiskOpportunity For SuccessCareer PoliticiansGiving Voice Author:Sarah Palin
“Our challenge, our opportunity is to pass common-sense solutions ... that repeal ObamaCare and replace it with patient-centered reforms that will help our constituents have better access to high-quality health care in America.” HelpingCareAmericaOpportunityChallengesCommonQualityHealthSolutionsPatientAccessCommon SenseReformHealth CareObamacareConstituentsHigh QualityQuality Health Care Author:John Boehner
“We have a violence problem in America. And no one is having a debate about the violence problem. And I think this is a missed opportunity to have an honest and open conversation in this country about why these horrifying things are happening, not simply what they're using to carry this out, but why are people doing this to begin with?” PeopleThinkingCountryProblemAmericaOpportunityViolenceHonestConversationHappeningsDebateMissed Opportunity Author:Marco Rubio
“There are some die-hard male chauvinist pigs and there are some Neanderthal women who are threatened by equality - but the great majority, polls say 65% to 75% of women of America, of all ages, absolutely identify with the complete agenda of the women's movement: equal opportunity for jobs, education, professional training, the right to control your own body - your own reproductive process, freedom of choice, child care-the whole agenda.” ChildrenHardWholeBodyCareAgeJobsAmericaDiesChoicesOpportunityProcessMovementEqualTrainingMajorityMalesAgendasPigsThreatenedPollsFreedom Of ChoiceEqual OpportunityChild CareNeanderthalsProfessional TrainingMale Chauvinist Author:Betty Friedan
“In North America, the medium-to-large publishers are generally confining investment to enhancements, upgrades and opportunities for incremental capacity and efficiency improvements, while among the smaller newspapers, there continues to be interest in systems that can provide a significant boost in production capabilities.” AmericaOpportunityInterestCapacityInvestmentProductionsImprovementNewspapersSignificantMediumsCapabilityEfficiencyPublishersBoostNorth AmericaEnhancement Author:Eric Bell
“It's not anything that is just perpetuated by White America or just perpetuated by Black America. It's just a cultural understanding that you're just not a part of the equation when it comes to sexuality and I think that people mistake your lack of opportunity with the level of your talent.” PeopleThinkingAmericaOpportunityUnderstandingBlackWhiteLevelsMistakeTalentSexualityEquationsBlack America Author:Viola Davis
“The thing which America allows you to be is it's the country of opportunities.” CountryAmericaOpportunity Author:Wyclef Jean
“I still believe we wasted a golden opportunity to make significant changes in our country. I think people in America would have been ready and willing to do it, but the Bush administration took a kind of simplistic, almost moronic approach to it, all because people were so afraid.” PeopleThinkingBelieveKindHas BeensStillsCountryAmericaOpportunityWillingReadyApproachSignificantGoldenOur CountryAdministrationI Still BelieveSignificant ChangeGolden Opportunity Author:Paul Auster
“...stand with me today and pledge to work for an America that doesn't ignore those in need and lifts up those who wish to succeed. Pledge to hold your government accountable for ignoring the suffering of so many for far too long. And pledge to do your part to build the America that we have dreamed of - where the bright light of opportunity shines on every person - an America where the family you are born into, or the color of your skin, will never control your destiny.” NeedsPersonsLongLightGovernmentTodayAmericaSufferingOpportunityWishBornPovertyDestinyColorSucceedSkinsShiningLiftsOur DestinyYour DestinyPledgeBright LightsShine OnThose In NeedControl Your Destiny Author:John Edward