Quotes About Opportunity

Thirty-nine percent of Americans will spend a year in the top 5 percent of the income distribution, 56 percent will find themselves in the top 10 percent, and 73 percent will spend a year in the top 20 percent.

Seize any opportunity or anything that looks like opportunity.

Some business bets in which one wins big but infrequently, yet loses small but frequently, are worth making if others are suckers for them and if you have the personal and intellectual stamina.

Freedom is always associated with risk taking, whether it leads to it or comes from it.

The fastest way to become rich is to socialize with the poor; the fastest way to become poor is to socialize with the rich.

Luck favors the prepared," Pasteur said

The market is like a large movie theater with a small door.

I had time to kill at the airport and it was a great opportunity for me to buy dark European chocolate, especially since I have managed to successfully convince myself that airport calories don't count. The

Of course chance favors the prepared! Hard work, showing up on time, wearing a clean (preferably white) shirt, using deodorant, and some such conventional things contribute to success—they are certainly necessary but may be insufficient as they do not cause success.

in Arabic it is called Shhm—best translated as nonsmall. If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don't take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing.

Bir treni kaç?rmak ancak peÅŸinden koÅŸarsan?z ac? verici olur.

What fools call wasting time is most often the best investment.

what is made to fly will not do well trapped on the ground

Luck favors the prepared," Pasteur

If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don't take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing.

These traders lose money frequently, but in small amounts, and make money rarely, but in large amounts. I call them crisis hunters. I am happy to be one of them.

is often a good career move for an author.

The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything," he said.

our successes depend on randomness).

we got here by accident does not mean that we should continue to take the same risks.

The more uncertainty, the more valuable the option.

positive Black Swans have a necessary first step: you need to be exposed to them. Many people do not realize that they are getting a lucky break in life when they get it. If

If you think that the inventions we see around us came from someone sitting in a cubicle and concocting them according to a timetable, think again: almost everything of the moment is the product of serendipity.

There seems to be no such thing as a foolish decision if it results in profits.