“ I hated poverty. Poverty is more of a choice than anything else, and i can change that (poverty). It depends upon how hard I want work, and I decided I would change it.”   - Ben Carson

What he means is that you can change the outcome of your future but you got to work hard in order to do it. For example Ben Carson as a child lived in poverty but later on he realized that living in poverty was a choice. And later on he became the top student of his high school and got a career as neuro surgeon. So if he can do it then why can’t we?