Quotes About Opportunity

The time to buy is when there's blood in the streets.

What happened was that 400 people showed up for six jobs. So I'm standing there for three hours drinking coffee just so some punk kid can ask me if I have any special skills; I told him, "yeah, bladder control."

It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

If the time ever comes when there is no longer poverty in the world, there will be a wonderful freedom for the higher qualities of the human race.

You don't swing at any pitch. You swing at the ones you can hit.

the material and spiritual sides of man are intertwined; that it is impossible for the State to assume responsibility for one without intruding on the essential nature of the other; that if we take from a man the personal responsibility for caring for his material needs, we take from him also the will and the opportunity to be free.

It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.

Every obstacle presents an opportunity to improve our condition!

Don't be discouraged if you have bad luck today. Better opportunities are always waiting ahead.

Anyone who has played the game professionally, you're always taught that the ball is the most important, most precious thing, so when the ball hits the ground, it's always a mad scramble. It's amazing how many times there is a fumble, and the person who recovers it initially doesn't walk away with the ball.

Unfortunately, the proliferation of choice in our lives robs us of the opportunity to decide for ourselves just how important any given decision is.

Pay attention to what you're giving up in the next-best alternative, but don't waste energy feeling bad about having passed up an option further down the list that you wouldn't have gotten to anyway.

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.

What seems to be a dead end may be an arrow pointing you in an unexpected direction.

There are many in this old world of ours who hold that things break about even for all of us. I have observed for example that we all get the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summertime and the poor get it in the winter.

You'll be amazed at how capable people think you are if they don't know you well. Don't waste that advantage.

No day passed that did not present an opportunity to become obsessed with a new area of concern.

If you risk nothing you gain nothing

Take these broken wings and learn to fly. All your life, you have only waited for this moment to arise.

Tengo este necio temor: el temor de ser vieja sin haber sido nunca joven de verdad.

I have invested my heart. There is a chance that it will be broken but also a chance at unlimited happiness.

Health is certainly extremely important, and we've done a number of things at Facebook to help improve global health and work in that area, and I am excited to do more there, too. But the reality is that it's not an either-or. People need to be healthy and be able to have the Internet as a backbone to connect them to the whole economy.

When the opportunity came along to do the reality show, it was just a very exciting time. We really never thought about how it would pan out for the entire family but just knew that it was going to be a great journey.

When I got picked up by the Tapout crew and was featured on their reality show, that really jumpstarted my career.