Quotes About Opportunity

I, a product of the New Frontier and Great Society, honestly believed that the world pretty much owed me a living--all I had to do was wait around in order to live better than my parents.

What are our expectations? Which of the things we desire are within reach? If not now, when? and will there be some left for me?

Não sou nenhum atirador ressentido, pronto para deitar abaixo os meus pares mais bem-sucedidos (embora esteja pronto para isso, quando a oportunidade se apresentar). Habitualmente sou o tipo que eles chamam para um acontecimento famoso, quando o primeiro chefe mostrou ser um psicopata, ou então um bêbado, bera e megalómano.

I'm just saying, I guess, that I got very lucky. And luck is not a business model.

Maybe we missed an important moment in history there. When we finally closed down home ec, maybe we missed an opportunity. Instead of shutting down compulsory cooking classes for young women, maybe we would have been far better off simply demanding that the men learn how to cook, too.

And I'm not going to tell you here how to live your life. I'm just saying, I guess, that I got very lucky. And luck is not a business model.

Live the dream for a bit. But keep your eyes open. And be careful. As you'll see, many visitors came to Tangier for a short vacation and remained for life. It's that kind of place.

Sometimes you see the uninviting door and just have to go through it.

Wedged as we are between two eternities of idleness, there is no excuse for being idle now.

Adventures only happen to adventurers,' Mr Deacon had said one evening when we were sitting drinking in the saloon bar of the Mortimer.

You are now at a crossroads. This is your opportunity to make the most important decision you will ever make. Forget your past. Who are you now? Who have you decided you really are now? Don't think about who you have been. Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully. ~

If you're prepared, and you know what it takes, it's not a risk. You just have to figure out how to get there. There is always a way to get there. —MARK CUBAN

Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

The person who is motivated by necessity is interested in what's known and what's secure. The person who is motivated by possibility is equally interested in what's not known. He wants to know what can evolve, what opportunities might develop.

The best opportunities come in times of maximum pessimism.

don't look to jump over seven-foot bars: I look around for one-foot bars that I can step over. —WARREN BUFFETT

I can't afford to waste my time making money. —JEAN LOUIS AGASSIZ

You're already a financial trader. You might not think of it in just this way, but if you work for a living, you're trading your time for money. Frankly, it's just about the worst trade you can make. Why? You can always get more money, but you can't get more time.

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck." —Anthony Robbins

So live in an attitude of positive expectancy, knowing that everything that happens in your life benefits you in some way.

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him." —ALDOUS HUXLEY

Investing is 95% luck and 5% skill. And maybe if I'm wrong, it's 98 and 2.

The secret to wealth is simple: Find a way to do more for others than anyone else does. Become more valuable. Do more. Give more. Be more. Serve more. And you will have the opportunity to earn more—whether

future. Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass; it's about learning to dance in the rain.