Quotes About Opportunity

I stopped three feet from gold, but I will never stop because men say 'no' when I ask them to buy insurance.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Nu astepta - niciodata nu va fi momentul potrivit.

Do not wait. The time will never be "just right.

Edwin C. Barnes discovered how true it is that men really do think and grow rich.

Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning.

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.

An intelligent follower has many advantages, among them the opportunity to acquire knowledge from his leader.

THE depression was a blessing in disguise. It reduced the whole world to a new starting point that gives everyone a new opportunity.

Opportunity is Everywhere. Think of The Cup. Think of its many Handles. When something comes up that ought to be done but that you don't want to do — DO it. That's a Handle. When something happens that takes you from your planned out Task — have no fear. That's a Handle.

their greatest success came just one step beyond the point at which defeat had overtaken them. Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one up when success is almost within reach.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are.

The world was never so resplendent with opportunity as it is today. On every hand there is an ever-increasing demand for the services of the man or the woman who makes a better mouse-trap or performs better stenographic service or preaches a better sermon or digs a better ditch or runs a more accommodating bank.

Psychologists have correctly said that "when one is truly ready for a thing, it puts in its appearance." Barnes

profits by their own mistakes and, through observation, by the mistakes of others. In every failure and mistake may be found the seed of an equivalent success.

Insufficient education. This is a handicap which may be overcome with comparative ease. Experience has proven that the best-educated people are often those who are known as "self-made," or self-educated. It takes more than a college degree to make one a person of education. Any person who is educated is one who has learned to get whatever he wants in life without violating the rights of others.

The "depression" was a blessing in disguise. It reduced the whole world to a new starting- point that gives every one a new opportunity.

No matter who you are or what may be your lifework, you are playing checkers with TIME! It is always your next move. Move with quick DECISION and Time will favor you. Stand still and Time will wipe you off the board. You cannot always make the right move, but, if you make enough moves you may take advantage of the law of averages and pile up a creditable score before the great game of LIFE is ended.

You may never know what type of person someone is unless they are given opportunities to violate moral or ethical codes.

We are quick to forget that just being alive is an extraordinary piece of good luck, a remote event, a chance occurrence of monstrous proportions.

Success brings an asymmetry: you now have a lot more to lose than to gain. You are hence fragile.

Luck is the grand equalizer.

Pasteur said, like all great discoverers, he knew something about accidental discoveries. The best way to get maximal exposure is to keep researching. Collect opportunities--

How do you innovate? First, try to get in trouble. I mean serious, but not terminal, trouble. I hold—it is beyond speculation, rather a conviction—that innovation and sophistication spark from initial situations of necessity, in ways that go far beyond the satisfaction of such necessity (from the unintended side effects of, say, an initial invention or attempt at invention).