Quotes About Opportunity

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. THEODORE ROOSEVELT

The comfort zone is the greatest enemy of human potential.

Do What You Can, with What You Have, Right Where You Are

With the miracle of compounding, an investment of $100 per month

Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along. NAPOLEON HILL

The biggest enemies we have to overcome on the road to success are not lack of ability or opportunity, but fears of failure and rejection, and the doubts that they trigger.

Una buena forma de recuperarse de cualquier situación que no resulte de la manera que esperabas es que busques lo bueno en el resultado inesperado.

Every situation is a positive situation if viewed as an opportunity for growth and self-mastery.

La gente no piensa en productos o servicios. Esas palabras son una manera educada de decir: «Adiós para siempre». Cuando te dicen: «Déjeme pensarlo», te anuncian que la entrevista terminó y que has perdido por completo el tiempo y la energía que invertiste en ese posible cliente.

More learning can occur when there are many obstacles then when thear are few or none. A life with difficult relationships, filled with obstacles and losses, presents the most opportunity for the soul's growth. You may have chosen the more difficult life so that you could accelerate your physical progress

Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window—or break down a door.

There are no "little obediences." Every opportunity given us by God, either to obey or to disobey, is an opportunity for that character formation and strengthening of faith that can prepare us for the greater challenges of faith God has in mind for us in the future.

To one point of view war meant boom times, intense activities, and good money in the pocket; to another it meant slow death for sacred American ideals. And to still another it meant personal opportunity, with sure advantage coming to him who was canny enough to play the angles correctly.

and you will have many opportunities to take in human civilization at its highest levels of achievement. ..approach this experience as a small child might approach a mud puddle. You can lean over and look at yourself in the reflection, maybe stick a finger in it, an cause a little ripple. Or you can dive in, thrash around, and find out what it feels like, what it tastes like... I urge you to jump in. And I look forward to seeing you, back here, at the end of this experience, covered in mud.

Many disruptors, like adopting a child, say, or starting a new job, would not traditionally be defined as negative, yet they're still disruptive. Even the most customarily negative life events, like losing a spouse or being fired, sometimes become catalysts for reinvention. Disruptors are simply deviations from daily life.

THE AVERAGE PERSON GOES THROUGH ONE DISRUPTOR EVERY 12–18 MONTHS

I was glad, though, for those boys whom we helped to get places at Paddington Coll e of Education. Eighteen months later one boy got his two ' A' levels. And to think that when I first met him his greatest ambition was to kill a white policeman!

When people are not educated enough for the job market, it is like a time bomb ticking away which could explode in the streets.

It's queer to think how many little guys there are like that, with more ability than push, sucked in by one wave and hurled out by the next, for every Sammy Glick who slips through and over the waves like a porpoise.

Winning the Loser's Game

In fact, the most profitable investments you will ever make are precisely at the times when pessimism is the most rampant.

When market prices fall below (rise above) this firm foundation of intrinsic value, a buying (selling) opportunity arises, because this fluctuation will eventually be corrected—or so the theory goes. Investing then becomes a dull but straightforward matter of comparing something's actual price with its firm foundation of value.

Only liars manage always to be out of the market during bad times and in during good times.

Laszlo Birinyi, in his book Master Trader, has calculated that a buy-and-hold investor would have seen one dollar invested in the Dow Jones Industrial Average in 1900 grow to $290 by the start of 2013. Had that investor missed the best five days each year, however, that dollar investment would have been worth less than a penny in 2013.