Quotes About Opportunity

Giving all of Denver's kids an equal chance at success is the best investment we can make in our community's kids and future.

Aspiring entrepreneurs are often advised to work at a startup for a couple of years first, to understand what's involved. But often, each company's approach to success is very narrow. So my advice is, 'Just do it.'

Success is work hard and give 100% every single day because it will leave as quickly as it came.

I went to business school so what they teach you in business school was that success is about positioning yourself to get lucky. It's not just about how hard you work. It is also about a little bit of luck. To position yourself to catch the luck when it comes.

One of the best things about being in a band for so long and having any level of success is the opportunity to go and play in different creative sandboxes.

I just hope that my success is in some way influencing other outlets to really be much more purposeful in promoting, advancing and recruiting people of color.

Getting an opportunity is one thing, but success is based on always trying to create value.

Every success story in this country was because of capitalism. Everything we're doing. Look at my story. It couldn't be done.

I'm a true Hollywood success story - knew no one, had no connections.

I'm actually an American success story.

I have spent some time talking to Rex Tillerson. He's an amazing human being. He's an American success story, not just in his business life. He's a rags-to-riches success story. He stated working at 8, lived in a one-bedroom house until the time he went to college, and grew to become the CEO of one of the world's largest companies.

Well, a lot of successes come by mistake.

I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!

All human beings are the same. In the United States, people come from all over the world, all races, all backgrounds. And they're all doing what they want, many scoring huge successes. When I saw that, I became more open. It freed my soul.

We go out, we explore, we take risk. And our successes have to pay for all that.

All the big successes of my career have been ideas that, on paper, you think, 'Well nobody's going to go for this because that genre is so dead.'

My brother and sister are smarter than me. But I'm the most successful because I've been given opportunities that they never had.

A successful entrepreneur can't be afraid of failures or setbacks. An initial setback can be a great opportunity to take a new and more promising approach to any problem, to come back stronger than ever.

To be successful, one must take chances.

It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Preparation meets opportunity, and that causes success if you're prepared to do your job and you practice a lot, more times than not you're going to be successful.

Investing is not nearly as difficult as it looks. Successful investing involves doing a few things right and avoiding serious mistakes.

Somewhere along the line you've got to do your apprenticeship. But I'd want half a chance of being successful at it.

I could have probably been just as successful by not going to college, but it was the most intellectually stimulating environment that I was ever in.