Quotes About Opportunity

A good battle plan that you act on today can be better than a perfect one tomorrow

Mother, please, hear me out. If there's something I've learned over the last few years, it's that everything people do is important. I happen to have chosen this particular thing to do with my life, and I was lucky enough to have the choice.

Nobody knows how things will turn out, that's why they go ahead and play the game...You give it your all and sometimes amazing things happen, but it's hardly ever what you expect.

Life is amazing, isn't it? You can't ever tell what will happen. Nobody knows until they go ahead and play the game.

You know that I am living proof that the American Dream is real. Growing up, our congressman cut through government bureaucratic red tape to help my mom buy our first house. That's the kind of congressman I'll be.

I think anyone about to leave one job not surprisingly would use their knowledge, their experience, their skills drawn from their previous positions to try and earn a living in the future. That's what happens in all interviews.

There's only one thing I know about life. I know some things happen by chance, And some things happen because we make them happen.

Ultimately the service that skeptics provide to high-tech marketers is to point continually to the discrepancies between the sales claims and the delivered product. These discrepancies, in turn, create opportunities for the customer to fail, and such failures, through word of mouth, will ultimately come back to haunt us as lost market share.

Most companies fail to cross the chasm because, confronted with the immensity of opportunity represented by a mainstream market, they lose their focus, chasing every opportunity that presents itself, but finding themselves unable to deliver a salable proposition to any true pragmatist buyer.

Visionaries are that rare breed of people who have the insight to match up an emerging technology to a strategic opportunity, the temperament to translate that insight into a high-visibility, high-risk project, and the charisma to get the rest of their organization to buy into that project. They are the early adopters of high-tech products.

The word risk is a negative one in their vocabulary—it does not connote opportunity or excitement but rather the chance to waste money and time.

For tyme ylost may nought recovered be.

Life is short. Art long. Opportunity is fleeting. Expierience treacherous. Judgement difficult.

Churchill had always had a strong sense of personal destiny: 'Why have I always been kept safe within a hair's breadth of death, except to do something like this?' Now he felt that more than ever that, even if war was folly and barbarism, it was his fulfilment – and opportunity.

In Joy, to lose one's life is to gain it, and Joy never loses an opportunity to be lost in the other.

I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.

America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself.

America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself.

A bird in the hand may be worth two in the bush, but remember also that a bird in the hand is a positive embarrassment to one not in the poultry business.

Opportunity knocks once at every man's door and then keeps on knocking.

Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for any one who wishes to become acquainted with our most prominent and influential people.

Why are you stingy with yourselves? Why are you holding back? What are you saving for—for another time? There are no other times. There is only now. Right now.

What are you waiting for? What are you saving for? Now is all there is.

What are you waiting for? Now is all there is!