Quotes About Opportunity

Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else.

A young apprentice applied to a master carpenter for a job. The older man asked him, "Do you know your trade?" "Yes, sir!" the young man replied proudly. "Have you ever made a mistake?" the older man inquired. "No, sir!" the young man answered, feeling certain he would get the job. "Then there's no way I'm going to hire you," said the master carpenter, "because when you make one, you won't know how to fix it.

A friend of mine was in a taxi in Washington, D.C., going slowly past the National Archives, when he noticed the words on the cornerstone of the building: "The past is prologue." He read them out loud to the taxi driver and said, "What do you think that means, 'The past is prologue'?" The taxi driver said, "I think it means, 'Man, you ain't seen nothin' yet!

Sometimes you are in just the right place.

When you're a parent you have a new chance to grow.

Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else.

But even the best luck is no good until it's used, and we must find the right way to use it.

Speculation is an effort, probably unsuccessful, to turn a little money into a lot. Investment is an effort, which should be successful, to prevent a lot of money from becoming a little.

Other men like playing golf, but I like buying apartments.

Until the mid-1950s, universities such as Harvard and Yale often admitted students on the basis of family connections. By the mid-1960s, largely due to the rise of educational testing, more merit-based standards had taken hold, and students from a wider range of social backgrounds found themselves on campuses that had been off-limits to their parents.64

On fortune's cap we are not the very button ...Then you live about her waist, or in the middle of her favours?...Faith, her privates we. SHAKESPEARE

Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.

Privatization is a bitter pill but it is a pill that will cure.

Almost all great fortunes are based upon one cracking good idea and the guts to go with it

It is often hard to distinguish between the hard knocks in life and those of opportunity.

I was strongly encouraged by a science teacher who took an interest in me and presented me with a key to the laboratory to allow me to work whenever I wanted.

The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.

Progress always involves risk you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first base.

They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever...and the other one scared me out of my mind.

Computer games tend to be boys' games, warlike games with more violence. We have not spent enough time thinking through how to encourage more girls to be involved in computing before coming to college so they can see a possible career in information technology.

Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs.

Having grown up in Bombay, from the day you're born, you have absolute freedom to choose who you want to be.

Not the day only, but all things have their morning.

He that does not ask will never get a bargain.