Quotes About Opportunity

The notion that bigger—and more—is better has so pervaded our culture that most people assume all entrepreneurs want to capitalize on every business opportunity, grow their companies as fast as they can, and build the next Google or Facebook.

Unfortunately, many people have to pass through a major crisis to recognize the choice they have.

People who choose to stay private and closely held and to place other goals ahead of growth get two things back in return: control and time. The combination equals freedom—or, more precisely, the opportunity for freedom. I wanted to include those who had made the most creative use of it.

I've made much more money by choosing the right things to say no to than by choosing things to say yes to," said restaurateur Danny Meyer of Union Square Hospitality Group, and he could have been speaking for others. "I measure it by the money I haven't lost and the quality I haven't sacrificed

'10' was amazing! I had no career before '10' and then all of a sudden I was able to do pretty much whatever I was able to do in the business.

I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.

Don't sell yourself short because without that you can't go far in life because after sports the only thing you know is sports and you can't do anything else with that.

Luck is a part of life, and everyone, at one point or another, gets lucky.

For God's sakes, quit worrying about your next job. Just do the best you can at the job you have now, and the offers will come. And when they do, if you have confidence in yourself you don't have to feel that you can't turn it down if it isn't quite right for you because you fear you'll never get another offer. You will. Wait for the right opportunity, and turn down all the rest. It will make all the difference.

The one surefire way to get me not to hire you is to send me your resume, especially if you've already got a good job. I won't be interested, because in a couple years, you'll be doing the same thing to me that you're doing to your current boss: looking for a better deal.

Come on down! You're the next contestant on "The Price is Right."

Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked.

We are only young once. That is all society can stand.

I don't know, I just keep finding good horses to back. I've always been pretty lucky that way.

If you need money, add value. And if you need da lot of money, add a lot of Value.

A conservative estimate of trailside deaths for 1850 alone is 5,000, meaning that among the optimistic souls departing St. Louis to start a new and better life, one in eleven never made it past the Rockies.

When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to loose.

When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to loose.

Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.

Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day.

Risk is essential to an enterprise. If we had full knowledge of the future there would be no risk.

(on nyc)...what's to love? the cold? the dirt? the crime?

I've always been in the right place and time. Of course, I steered myself there.

One lifetime is not enough to live