Quotes About Opportunity

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. The Road Not Taken (- Robert Frost-)

There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.

When you've worked hard and done well and walked through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you.

Sometimes it's better to be lucky than smart.

Everyone would love to have a large and growing market, perfected technology, and infinite capital. Under those conditions, anyone can be an entrepreneur. The question is what you are willing to do and can you do when the conditions are far from perfect.

You have to sit by the river a very long time before a roast duck will fly into your mouth.

Complete this sentence: If your startup never existed, the world would be worse off because __________.

The purpose of most keynotes is to entertain and inform the audience. It is seldom intended to provide an opportunity to pitch your product.

Thank the people who helped you achieve results before they are gone. You'll regret not doing so if the opportunity passes.

Remember the opportunities that you were afforded. After you've "made it," provide opportunities to others.

Turn bad experiences into something good.

Don't fear the impact of quitting something. What you do after you quit is more important than the fact that you quit. Do you reboot, remake, and restart, or do you give up?

Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

New York: A third-rate Babylon.

Es wäre ihnen ein Leichtes, die Erde zu erobern, sie haben es aber bislang nicht versucht, weil dazu keine Notwendigkeit bestand. Sie lassen die Dinge lieber so, wie sie sind, und ersparen sich die Scherereien.

J.P. Morgan learned to fish in troubled waters.

At home you could depend on your parents, but in America you are on your own and should make as many friends as you can . . . You don't know who may hold out a helpful hand in your hour of need.

People who live in poor countries have to be entrepreneurial even just to survive.

A well-designed welfare state can actually encourage people to take chances with their jobs and be more, not less, open to changes.

Many people have serious academic degrees but cannot find a job, and sadly their degrees are so limited that they cannot even think about how to create a job for themselves.

The fact is that it is utterly pointless to make anyone a generous offer unless he is a rich man; rich men are the only people who can accept a generous offer. To be poor is simply the peculiar human condition of not being able to take advantage of a generous offer. The essence of being a poor peasant is the inability to avail oneself of the gifts that politicians offer to promise and to be left at the mercy of ideals that only make rich richer and the poor poorer.

If there is any such thing as crime, then it is a crime to be uneducated.

As he saw it, the central issue had shifted from the purely racial to the economic. King likened the situation to a lifelong prisoner who is released from jail after the warden discovers that the man was falsely accused all along. Go ahead, you're free now, the jailer says. But the prisoner has no job skills, no prospects, and the jailer doesn't think to give him money for the bus fare into town.

NASSER: In this damn country that we hate and love, you can get anything you want. It's all spread out and availble. That's why I believe in England. You just have to know how to squeeze the tits of the system.