Quotes About Opportunity

I could have gone to a bigger school. I use it as motivation going to a school that loved me. I wanted to put them on the map and show everyone that you don't need to go to a top school to make it in the NBA.

Knowing the opportunity to win a championship here in Chicago, right now, that's the main motivation for me.

My motivation comes from the plays I didn't make.

Many are called but few get up.

I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.

When I was in The Scream, I thought I'd be around for 30 years playing with The Scream guys. Who knew I was gonna get a call from Motley?

The thing I wasn't prepared for was when I wasn't in Motley Crue anymore. 'Cause as much as my phone was ringing, it stopped ringing.

Education was the motor that allowed me to make my way up the ladder.

I did a deal with my parents to take a year out before university at the end of 1992 to try and forge a career in motor sport. I still haven't gone. I left school at 18 and that was it.

People still say to me, 'What, you still live in Mexico?' I don't have to go to the United States simply to find work, and I don't have to stop what I'm doing. I mean, which Hollywood film beats 'The Motorcycle Diaries?'

My father lost a lung in a chemical accident at General Motors, and after a while, he got a settlement that sort of changed all of our lives and moved us from, what we say, 'ashy to classy' in some aspects.

I guess it comes back to the old motto, you have you're fifteen minutes a fame.

Since all countries around the world began poor, what requires an explanation is not why there is poverty but how some countries rose out of poverty to become prosperous.

Risk-taking is the mother's milk of capitalism. The Wall Street Journal

It seemed cruelly unfair to me, even then, how fast your life can change before you have an opportunity to rethink your choices. We should get second chances on the big stuff. We should come equipped with erasers attached to the tops of our heads. Like pencils. We should be able to flip over and scribble away mistakes, at least once or twice during the duration of our existence, especially in matters of life and death.

And Tracy was young, just twenty, still wet behind the ears, and the old blinders were on him so he couldn't really see what was around and he believed the bull about freedomofopportunity and a chancetorise and ifyoureallywanttoworkyoucanalwaysfindajob and ruggedindividualism and something about pursuitofhappiness.

Did you ever to think, maybe your not too big? Maybe this town's just to small? - Big Fish

Did you know that the average professional salesperson keeps more than 30 people employed? This is a true opportunity to serve mankind.

And, second, with any new invention, it makes sense to at least ask ourselves how we might maximise the benefits and mitigate the risks.

La economía tiene que ver con la decisión de Yang Li.

I do not want to miss the opportunity of our obtaining a share in this magnificent African cake.

Don't throw away luck on little stuff. Save it up.

opportunity for new entrants is to fully embrace the potential of Web 2.0. Companies that succeed will create applications that learn from

It's a new world, right enough, a world for the taking, and we're the ones who know how to live in it without having to pretend it's a district of England or France or Spain.