Quotes About Opportunity

throw caution to the wind, ignore the pleas of parents, coaches, spouses, and bosses to be 'realistic.' Realistic people do not accomplish extraordinary things...

successful businesses and economies invest into a downturn, aiming to emerge on the other side ahead of their competitors.

The stock market is a financial redistribution system. It takes money away from those who have no patience and gives it to those who have." — Warren Buffet

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

The New Frontier I speak of is not a set of promises -- it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intent to ask of them.

When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

Politics is like football if you see daylight, go through the hole.

When written in Chinese the word "crisis" is composed of two characters — one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

The New Frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises—it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them.

Change is the law of life; and those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. [Inaugural Address, January 20 1961]

the world was so big, so full of things I could master.

League before landing the job in Charlotte in 1998. He was only thirty

Fifteen minutes in the majors means you're a great baseball player," said Detroit Tigers manager Jim Leyland—who never got his fifteen minutes above the Triple-A level. "People just can't understand how good you have to be to get there at all.

Fame had been democratized. During most of history only members of the privileged classes had possessed a realistic opportunity to achieve majestic fame, but in the eighteenth century it has been demonstrated repeatedly, by men such as Franklin, for instance, that fame might be achieved by men born into a lesser social rank.

All of us do not have equal talents, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talents

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury, Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America.

Never give up because, if an opportunity arises, you have to be ready to take it.

Now I know that if you wait until you think you are ready, you'll wait your whole life

Now I know that if you wait till you think you are ready, you'll wait all your life.