Opportunity Creation Quotes

Never let a good crisis go to waste

We will attract more people to Kentucky by lowering our income tax rate. In fact, lowering the income tax rate is the single most important thing we can do to create opportunity.

I'll work overtime to open the doors of opportunity to industry and commerce.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

If you have free immigration, in the way we had it before 1914, everybody benefited. The people who were here benefited. The people who came benefited. Because nobody would come unless he, or his family, thought he would do better here than he would elsewhere. And, the new immigrants provided additional resources, provided additional possibilities for the people already here. So everybody can mutually benefit.

The tax program is based upon a broad and just social and economic purpose ... not to destroy wealth, but to create a broader range of opportunity, to restrain the growth of unwholesome and sterile accumulations.

International politics is no longer a zero-sum game but a multi-dimensional arena where cooperation and competition often occur simultaneously. Gone is the age of blood feuds. World leaders are expected to lead in turning threats into opportunities.

It's about improving the business climate to give people a better chance of succeeding.

I think it's right not to 'give' but to create opportunities and invest a percentage into those communities that you come from.

Winning 'American Idol' really anoints you the opportunity to have a great career; it does not anoint you a career.

At the end of the day, I come from a culture and an upbringing where you create your own path. There is no seat at the table for you? You create your own opportunity.

Always try to turn a marketing disaster into a marketing opportunity.

I think if you show up and you work hard and you're straightforward, you can always create your own opportunities. I hope I'm right.

The system of creating opportunities for those who were by law excluded, you've got to do that. But you mustn't create a perception that the process is devoid of competitiveness... devoid of building a world class, sustainable black business community.

Most people never get wealthy simply because they are not trained financially to recognize opportunities right in front of them. The rich have learned to recognize opportunities as well as how to create them

I create opportunities.

I've discovered on this journey in the entertainment industry that, especially as a girl, woman... it's really important to try to create your own opportunities.

Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.

I worry about growing income inequality. But I worry even more that the discussion is too narrowly focused. I worry that our outrage at the top 1 percent is distracting us from the problem that we should really care about: how to create opportunities and ensure a reasonable standard of living for the bottom 20 percent.

Certainly, my manager Gary Ungar was the first person to give me any attention and hustle for me. This was back in 2009.

Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.

Just out here workin' hard and doin' what we do best: grind, hustle, and anything possible to create new opportunities.

Take advantage of every opportunity; where there is none, make it for yourself.

'Drive for Diversity' puts people behind the wheel that would never have had the opportunity. Nascar sponsors individual teams who have a person of color, somebody who would not have the opportunity otherwise. And then they're noticed by bigger teams - it's like minor-league baseball.