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“Dictators never invent their own opportunities.”

Opportunity Invention Dictator

Book:Untitled Epic Poem on the History of Industrialization

Source: Untitled Epic Poem on the History of Industrialization

“The greater opportunity enabled me to make important discoveries and inventions.”

Important Opportunity Greater Discovery Invention Discovery And Invention

Author:Philip Emeagwali

“there are all kinds of wonderful new inventions that give you nothing as owners except the opportunity to spend a lot more money in a business that's still going to be lousy. The money still won't come to you. All of the advantages from great improvements are going to flow through to the customers.”

Giving Kind Stills Opportunity Wonderful Advantage Flow Investing Customers Improvement Invention All Kinds Owners More Money New Inventions

Author:Charlie Munger

“That as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.”

Should Opportunity Enjoy Advantage Glad Invention

Book:The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Source: The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“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.”

“For Americans the contradiction between national ideal and social fact required explanation and correction. Ultimately this contradiction did not lead to the abandonment of the ideal of equal opportunity but rather to its postponement: to the notion of achieving for the next generation what could not be achieved for the current one. And the chief means to this end was a brilliant American invention: universal, free, compulsory public education. This "solution" was especially important for children and families because it gave children a central role in achieving the national ideal.”

Source: All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure