Quotes About Opportunity

Yesterday is a canceled check tomorrow is a promissory note today is the only cash you have -- so spend it wisely.

What a tricky balance of safety and risk it is that brings out the best in us?

You're in the hallway and it feels scary right now but just keep going. There's another door, and you're going to find it. And then the whole world is going to open up to you.

No time better than the present,' I always say. Or was that, 'Nothing is better than a present'? I forget.

Yugi… dia menikmati pertarungan ini. Dia yang selama ini menjadi bayangan, selalu mengekor di belakang, kini mendapat kesempatan untuk menunjukkan kemampuannya.

Anzu: I don't know where I should go either...everybody's like that! We're all scared, but we have to keep moving forward, even if we can't see the road in front of us...holding our heads up high...believing in what lies ahead...even while we sit here, that moment is coming closer every second...We've all got limited time...you know?...I know it's not easy to chase your dreams...But I want to believe that I have a chance. Even if it's just a tiny one...

Too many people think only of their own profit. But business opportunity seldom knocks on the door of self-centered people. No customer ever goes to a store merely to please the storekeeper.

I dug deep into the pockets of my overcoats and grabbed fistfuls of patience as I watched them queue for the opportunity to be sorry.

You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it's been something I've been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it's something I hope to continue because it's interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.

If you don't even know where the door is, how can you ever expect to be able to walk through it? Of course, you don't have to walk through it unless you want to. All I'm testing here is whether or not you know where the doorway is. I'm giving you choices.

Most of you guys can't see the potential in a nervous breakdown. A real collapse. There's more chance of finding yourself in a major depression than there is in a bottle Prozac.

You've got to think of every talent you have, every gift you could give the world around you. And you've got to take the chance of giving it. (246)

Lifetime corporate employment is dead; we're all free agents now, managing our own careers across multiple jobs and companies. And because today's primary currency is information, a wide-reaching network is one of the surest ways to become and remain thought leaders of our respective fields.

Uncertainty is where new value is created. Everything you want in life is on the other side of all your excuses for not trying.

Good follow-up alone elevates you above 95 percent of your peers. The follow-up is the hammer and nails of your networking tool kit. In fact, FOLLOW-UP IS THE KEY TO SUCCESS IN ANY FIELD.

And the rule in life that has unprecedented power is that the individual who knows the right people, for the right reasons, and utilizes the power of these relationships, can become a member of the "club," whether he started out as a caddie or not.

Ultimately, everyone has to ask himself or herself how they're going to fail. We all do, you know, so let's get that out of the way. The choice isn't between success and failure; it's between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity.

audacity was often the only thing that separated two equally talented men and their job titles.

Take as little time as possible in your cold call to ensure that the next time you speak to them it's in their office, or better yet, over some linguine and wine.

1) create a company-approved project that will force you to learn new skills and introduce you to new people within your company; (2) take on leadership positions in the hobbies and outside organizations that interest you; (3) join your local alumni club and spend time with people who are doing the jobs you'd like to be doing; (4) enroll in a class at a community college on a subject that relates to either the job you're doing now or a job you see yourself doing in the future.

The choice isn't between success and failure; it's between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity.

The future is dynamic and not fully in your control. Celebrate that fact instead of fighting it, and life gets a lot more interesting.

Our careers aren't paths so much as landscapes that are navigated. We're free agents, entrepreneurs, and intrapreneurs—each with our own unique brand.

If you plan your whole life, by definition you can't get lucky. So you have to leave that little slot open.