Quotes About Opportunity

Kelly Heath had played second base in the Royals organization, and had exactly one major league at bat, in 1982, after the Royals regular second baseman, Frank White, decided in the middle of a game that his hemorrhoids were bothering him. As one of the other scouts put it, Kelly was the only player in history whose entire big league career was made possible by a single asshole. Chris Pittaro had played second base for

Whatever that guy is buying, I want to short it.

I've always felt ideas were a dime a dozen," he said. "If you had one that didn't work out, you should not fight too hard to save it, just go find another.

any person with the brains to get into the IIT's and the gumption to get himself to the United States was capable of all manner of miracles.

Clark couldn't stand the idea of anyone's working for him without having the chance to accumulate a bit of wealth.

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Era como si fuéramos en un avión a diez mil metros que se hubiera averiado y Wachovia todavía tuviera unos cuantos paracaídas a la venta. Nadie más vendía ya paracaídas, pero en realidad tampoco nadie quería creer que se necesitaran. […] Después de eso, el mercado se cerró por completo.»

Value investors like Graham and Dodd are so focused on being the last one laughing that they miss a lot of the laughs in between.

The metaphor that Romer used to describe the economy to noneconomists was of a well-stocked kitchen waiting for a brilliant chef to exploit it. Everyone in the kitchen starts with more or less the same ingredients, the metaphor ran, but not everyone produces good food. And only a very few people who wander into the kitchen find entirely new ways to combine old ingredients into delightfully tasty recipes. These people were the wealth creators.

Capitalism's machinery favored these capitalists as it had never favored anyone else in its history.

Once you were let into the Great Society of Sand Hill Road, you were given first crack at these miraculous enterprises at a small fraction of the cost to Wall Street investment bankers—never mind the general investing public.

He now sat on a billion dollars of Netscape shares and could do whatever the hell he pleased with them. And what pleased him was to put it at great risk.

The VCs could tolerate companies' going bust—they had so many of them—but they could not tolerate missing out on the new new thing.

It's supply and demand," he said. "My sister teaches kids with learning disabilities. She enjoys her work as much as I do, but earns much less. If nobody else wanted to teach, she'd make more money." Say what you will about the analysis.

In the words of President Lyndon Johnson when he signed the 1965 immigration reform act: "This is a simple test, and it is a fair test. Those who can contribute most to this country—to its growth, to its strength, to its spirit—will be the first that are admitted to this land."21

Everything you do is a one-way street.

If a door isn't there then you can't hope to go through it, but if it's there but always locked, then you're trapped. Someone is keeping the door shut.

Success is about smart risk management, not about wild risk taking.

Timing can be everything and wisdom requires the patience to wait as well as the courage to leap when the time becomes right.

Therefore the skillful commander takes up a position in which he cannot be defeated and misses no opportunity to master his enemy.

Money is a tool we use to reach certain ends. Nothing more, nothing less. It's hard to come by, though, so when opportunities arise, we need to make the most of them.

But I tell you this, Sepiriz—given the opportunity I shall make that god rue his homecoming, for he has done the one thing that can move me to real anger. And the anger of Elric of Melniboné and his sword Stormbringer can destroy the world!" Sepiriz

One day, she told us, you'll have to leave here and go out into the big world out there and earn your living like everyone else. To do that you need to learn. The more you learn now, the more interesting your life will be.

those who had risked everything at a riverbend on a left turn and so discovered a fortune.