Quotes About Opportunity

We mortals are changeable. Alas, I must say more apt to change our minds when right than wrong. Wrong, we are stubborn indeed. Right, we are prone to vacillate and let opportunity escape.

Would you call a fisherman lucky who for years so studied the habits of the fish that with each changing wind he could cast his nets about them? Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared.

he accepts not opportunity when she comes. He waits. He says I have much business right now. Bye and bye I talk to you. Opportunity, she will not wait for such slow fellow. She thinks if a man desires to be lucky he will step quick. Any man not step quick when opportunity comes, he big procrastinator like our friend, this merchant.

I learned that to attract good luck to oneself, it is necessary to take advantage of opportunities.

If thou use it wisely, it will be the basis of thy future success.

I not only made back as much as I lost, but much more.

Income, that is the thing. I wish an income that will keep flowing into my purse whether I sit on the wall or travel to far lands.

Men of Action are Favored by the goddess of Good Luck.

La suerte puede sonreirnos si aprovechamos las ocasiones que se presentan

Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared

Wise are thy words, my friend, responded the buyer. Good luck fled from procrastination in both these tales. Yet, this is not unusual. The spirit of procrastination is within all men. We desire riches; yet, how often when opportunity doth appear before us, that spirit of procrastination from within doth urge various delays in our acceptance. In listening to it we do become our own worst enemies.

You were indeed fortunate that Algamish made of you an heir.

Youth is ambitious. Youth would take short cuts to wealth

How becamest thou so wealthy?" "By taking advantage of opportunities available to all citizens of our good city.

Those eager to grasp opportunities for their betterment, do attract 'good luck'.

Portanto, aqui está a terceira solução para a falta de dinheiro: Pôr cada moeda para trabalhar de modo que possa reproduzir-se como algodão nos campos e trazer-lhes lucro, um rio de riqueza fluindo constantemente para dentro de suas bolsas.

EL PRIMER PRINCIPIO SABIO DE INVERSION ES SEGURIDAD PARA TU CAPITAL. ¿ES SABIO DEJARSE PERSUADIR POR GANANCIAS MAYORES CUANDO HAY POSIBILIDAD DE QUE TU PRINCIPAL SE PIERDA? YO DIGO QUE NO. LA PENALIDAD DEL RIESGO ES PÉRDIDA PROBABLE. ESTUDIA CUIDADOSAMENTE ANTES DE SEPARARTE DE TU TESORO EN CADA OPORTUNIDAD, HASTA TENER LA SEGURIDAD DE QUE SEGURAMENTE LO PODRÁS RECUPERAR. NO TE DEJES ENGAÑAR POR TUS PROPIOS DESEOS ROMÁNTICOS DE ADQUIRIR RIQUEZA RÁPIDAMENTE.

The truth is this: Good luck can be enticed by accepting opportunity.

Those eager to grasp opportunities for their betterment, do attract the interest of the good goddess. She is ever anxious to aid those who please her. Men of action please her best . Action will lead thee forward to the successes thou dost desire.

This, then, is the third cure for a lean purse: to put each coin to laboring that it may reproduce its kind even as the flocks of the field and help bring to thee income, a stream of wealth that shall flow constantly into thy purse.

Oportunidade é uma deusa altiva que não perde tempo com aqueles que não estão preparados.

A quelque chose malheur est bon, pour qui sait réfléchir.

A fortunate birth, in other words, is a shock absorber. -The Thought Experiment

Our country is big, let us be big.