Quotes About Opportunity

Well, we must all make do. Humans aren't born equal. Each of us must make the most of ourselves.

This loan is like a short fuse on a long stick of dynamite. Many things can change in the course of 6 to 18 months while you're building your

It's easy to forget that anything is possible with these guys. That there really are no limits.

Sometimes we do very little outreach in our community and don't let our light shine because there is an area of

i worked hard in order to get lucky

he could manage. Ms. Silver happened to be walking by

All imaginable futures are not equally possible.

One reason so much money is flowing into the service frontier is that there are so many more ways to be a service than to be a product. The number of different ways to recast transportation as a service is almost unlimited. Uber is merely one variation. There are dozens more already established, and many more possible. The general approach for entrepreneurs is to unbundle the benefits of transportation (or any X) into separate constituent goods and then recombine them in new ways.

The end is almost always the beginning of something better.

The last 30 years has created a marvelous starting point, a solid platform to build truly great things. But what's coming will be different, beyond, and other. The things we will make will be constantly, relentlessly becoming something else. And the coolest stuff of all has not been invented yet. Today truly is a wide-open frontier. We are all becoming. It is the best time ever in human history to begin. You are not late.

So, the truth: Right now, today, in 2016 is the best time to start up. There has never been a better day in the whole history of the world to invent something. There has never been a better time with more opportunities, more openings, lower barriers, higher benefit/risk ratios, better returns, greater upside than now.

A platform is a foundation created by a firm that lets other firms build products and services upon it. It is neither market nor firm, but something new.

How many geniuses at the level of Bach and Van Gogh died before the needed technologies were available for their talents to take root?

The only way to avoid failure is to sit in a corner and do nothing.

Money equals freedom.

I wasn't originally taking drama, but the drama teacher asked me to audition for Bye, Bye Birdie. I did and got the lead role. Initially I was kind of scared, but once I did it I got bitten by the bug and loved it.

What kind of world would this postrailroad era be for California, now that it was less than a week's journey from the East Coast?

What would they find? A better life? Or the same dreary, grinding poverty that had motivated their immigration in the first place?

Raising a mere $15,800 in cash, the Big Four, as history would know them, formed an enterprise that over the next decades would earn them $200 million in profits.

If you were rich, and you were a dude, it really felt like if you just followed a certain number of steps, you could do pretty much whatever you wanted.

We stood in the doorway, the whole world opening up before us. God, there was so much of it.

Turn the cell into a classroom and the prison into a university

Life is short; live it up.

You have only one life to live. Live it to the full. Time flies as fast as a bird on the wing.