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Quotes About Opportunity

Indeed, when pessimism is rampant and market prices are down is the worst time to sell out or to stop making regular investment contributions. The time to buy is when stocks are on sale.
~ Burton G. Malkiel
Avoiding serious trouble, particularly troubles that come from incurring unnecessary risks, is one of the great secrets to investment success. Investors all too often beat themselves by making serious—and completely unnecessary—investment mistakes. In
~ Burton G. Malkiel
There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can. —Mark Twain, Following the Equator INVESTMENT
~ Burton G. Malkiel
14 A LIFE-CYCLE GUIDE TO INVESTING There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can. —Mark Twain, Following the Equator INVESTMENT STRATEGY NEEDS to be keyed to one's life cycle.
~ Burton G. Malkiel
It is not hard to make money in the market.
~ Burton G. Malkiel
Everything happens at exactly the right moment.
~ Byron Katie
If I knocked and waited at every door, who knows what I might miss?
~ C.J. Sansom
When the poor at the BOP are treated as consumers, they can reap the benefits of respect, choice, and self-esteem and have an opportunity to climb out of the poverty trap.
~ C.K. Prahalad
When the poor are converted into consumers, they get more than access to products and services. They acquire the dignity of attention and choices from the private sector that were previously reserved for the middle-class and rich.
~ C.K. Prahalad
And now, what's going to happen to us without barbarians? They were, those people, a kind of solution.
~ C.P. Cavafy
The creation of agricultural enterprises represents one of the most effective ways to stimulate rural development.
~ Calestous Juma
School plays were invented partly to give parents and easy opportunity to demonstrate their priorities.
~ Calvin Trillin
As long as a thing is unknown, it belongs to us in a way that well-known things do not. For we have the opportunity to fill the empty, unknown spaces for ourselves, and in them there is room for imagination and for hope.
~ Cameron Dokey
Life gives you lots of chances to screw up which means you have just as many chances to get it right.
~ Candace Bushnell
Remember, girl: It's the best time in the history of the world to be you. You can do anything! You can do everything! You can be whatever you want to be! Just as long as you follow the rules.
~ Candace Bushnell
Rule number one: Why is it that the one time a cute guy talks to you, you have a friend who's in crisis?
~ Candace Bushnell
Lots of famous people are late bloomers. My father says it's an advantage to be a late bloomer. Because when good things start happening, you're ready for it.
~ Candace Bushnell
When one good thing happened to you, other good things seemed to follow.
~ Candace Bushnell
As long as one refuses to know one's place, there's no telling what one can do in the world.
~ Candace Bushnell
Poor people don't want to stay poor. But there's a misconception that it's somehow unfair to poor people, or, worse, racist, to let them in on the main secret of wealthy, educated and successful people: smaller families mean larger lives.
~ Carl Safina
All inquiries carry with them some element of risk.
~ Carl Sagan
The most brilliant youngsters are a national and a global resource.
~ Carl Sagan
We will leap at the opportunity to support, to believe, to feel good. Most reporters, editors, and producers—swept up with the rest of us—will shy away from real skeptical scrutiny. He won't be selling you prayers or crystals or tears. Perhaps he'll be selling you a war, or a scapegoat, or a much more all-encompassing bundle of beliefs than Carlos's.
~ Carl Sagan
Nuestro planeta y nuestro sistema solar se hallan rodeados por un nuevo mundo oceánico, las profundidades del espacio. Y no es más infranqueable que el de otras épocas. Quizá todavía es pronto. Puede que no haya llegado el momento. Pero esos otros mundos, que prometen indecibles oportunidades, nos hacen señas.
~ Carl Sagan