Quotes About Opportunity

What is life if not a gamble?

Ludlow put a hand on his arm. "A friend of mine used to say, 'You cannot change the past, but every moment is an opportunity to change your future.

It's time to ask why [the United States] is the only country in the world where we permit our children to be saddled with tens — sometimes hundreds — of thousands of dollars of debt before they begin to earn a penny.

Studies are freaking expensive! And yet I was careful... I was one of those who studied the less! (Miche colucci known as Coluche)

Have stakes, will travel

There's bound to be a job for a good cook somewhere. There aren't that many of us about, you know,' she informed them seriously.

Southern California had no quarterly miracles, no opportunities for starting over. Not everybody cares to pay the cold, silver coinage of winter for a seasonal renascence, but for me it was a small price.

Children give us the golden opportunity not only to reinvent our forgotten childhood, but also to play all the exciting great games, even the ones we missed before!

Third time is the charm

One man's shit is anothers factory of Bliss.

every exit is an entrance to somewhere else.

Americans have so far put up with inequality because they felt they could change their status. They didn't mind others being rich, as long as they had a path to move up as well. The American Dream is all about social mobility in a sense - the idea that anyone can make it.

For Jefferson, there was one step crucial to creating a genuine natural aristocracy. The poor and rich had to have equal access to a good education.

Jamie was quick to see a use for the ice sheet.

You know, you don't have to have money to be a successful businessperson. You don't need a college degree. You just need a lot of common sense backed up by a willingness to work hard.

curmudgeon a single opportunity to complain about the

Excelencias, imaginad por un momento qué sucedería si las bibliotecas pudiesen estar en casa de cualquier hijo de vecina.

Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.

Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.

working too long for other people can blunt your desire to take risks.

To become rich, every single percentage point of anything you own is crucial. It is worth fighting for, tooth and claw. It is worth suing for. It is worth shouting and banging on the table for. It is worth begging for and grovelling for. It is worth lying and cheating for. In extremis, it is even worth negotiating for. Never,

You do not need to be clever. You do not even need to be that adept. You need only a little cunning and massive determination to become rich. Providing you can pay much cleverer but risk-averse people properly, and promote them and lead them in such a way that they are all rowing in the same direction, they will sign on to your little ship.

As an owner, or an owner in training, you must always be alert for the telltale signs that here is a candidate for promotion and delegation.

If you wish to become rich, look carefully about you at the prevailing industries where wealth appears to be gravitating. THEN GO TO WHERE THE MONEY IS!