Quotes About Opportunity

in which man can have the chance to live by values that give meaning to life.

The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made.

There is always a unlucky person behind a lucky person or the lucky person can not be lucky.

Tony Montana Me, I want what's coming to me. Manny Oh, well what's coming to you Tony Montana The world, Chico, and everything in it.

The only risk of failure is promotion.

Work is like the rest of life. The best parts are free.

Defensive management is blind to recognizing how obsessing about preventing bad things also prevents good things from happening or sometimes even prevents anything from happening at all.

The burden of deciding when to launch something is on the maker, not a marketer. If something is launched or a bug is fixed, data is instantly collected about how it's used, which serves as the basis to make quick revisions. There are no big schedules, few big plans, and no enforced mechanisms for coordination. It sounds like chaos, and it is. But if everyone understood chaos and perhaps liked the uncertainty, they would find freedom and opportunity.

Taking responsibility, even for failures, is always a growth opportunity.

Chance favors the prepared." — Louis Pasteur

Difficult times are learning opportunities. Make sure you and your team take the time to examine what happened and how it could have been avoided.

I'm very thankful to players like John Stockton and Spud Webb. They've made it possible for someone like me to make it. I think teams are actually looking for one player under 6-feet now, because they make things happen.

UNLOCKING YOUR IDEA

so what's your big idea?

The key to success as an entrepreneur is finding an opportunity, and when you find it, executing like crazy.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes to us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

The best part is it's a dream come true. I've always wanted to be a working actor, and the good part of it... it's all good! I work long hours, but it's amazing. They pay me. That's amazing! I get to kiss Keri Russell, and that ain't too bad.

Have you ever stopped for a minute to think about how many things had to go wrong in your life for you to end up exactly where you are?

We're all dealt a different hand in this life. I don't know what hand you were dealt. But I know that the only thing we can do with our hand is play it—no bluffing. You can make the choice. You can either waste the opportunities you've been given, waste away in your regrets and failures, waste your gift, waste your time and energy and effort, and wait for your participation ribbon. Or you can choose to finish first. Which will you choose?

I learned that once you take advantage of the opportunity to learn and experience and open yourself to a new way of living, you can't wait to do it again and do it better and find new ways of feeling that again and again and again.

God has always promised to do more than we would ever ask or imagine. It's just that so few of us take Him up on His offer.

That's how luck works, lad. You can bitch all you like about how things could have been more favorable for you, but rest assured things can always be worse. Always.

Can't buy in for the last hand if you don't get there in time to take a chair.

Land has its pirates, same as the sea