Quotes About Opportunity

There are a million ways to make money in the markets. The irony is that they are all very difficult to find.

Make the calls. Maybe they won't talk to you, but I guarantee that if you don't call, they won't talk to you.

Charting is a little like surfing. You don't have to know a lot about the physics of tides, resonance, and fluid dynamics in order to catch a good wave. You just have to be able to sense when it's happening and then have the drive to act at the right time.

it's not about being right; it's about making money.

You don't want to have a position before a move has started. You want to wait until the move is already under way before you get into the market.

When asked what he thought the average trader did wrong, Tom Baldwin, who in the days before electronic trading was the largest individual trader in the Treasury bond pit, replied, "They trade too much. They don't pick their spots selectively enough.

What's in store for me in the direction I don't take?

I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.

And then we'll all go off to sweet life, 'cause now is the time and we all know time!

They never asked, I kept offering.

He and I suddenly saw the whole country like an oyster for us to open; and the pearl was there, the pearl was there.

I see as much as doors'll allow, open or shut

But why think about that when all the golden land's ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see?

But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.

I love the way everybody says L.A. on the Coast, it's their one and only golden town when all is said and done.

And in fact I can see in Cody's eyes that he can see in my own eyes the regret we both feel that recently we havent had chances to talk whatever

Aber warum Trübsal blasen, wenn das ganze goldene Land vor einem liegt und alle möglichen ungeahnten Ereignisse auf einen warten, einen überraschen und glücklich machen wollen, weil man lebt und sie erleben kann.

Now he'd bought a new suit to go back in; blue with pencil stripes, vest and all—eleven dollars on Third Avenue, with a watch and watch chain, and a portable typewriter with which he was going to start writing in a Denver rooming house as soon as he got a job there.

Then the business game is to make profits out of others, and to prevent others from making profits out of you.

Infinite ambition and infinite loneliness, receiving neither help nor sympathy, I did it all for myself--navigation, mathematics, science, literature and what not. And history tells of opportunity that came to the slaves who rose to the purple. No man makes opportunity. All the great men ever did was to know it when it came to them.

La vita non è sempre questione di tenere in mano delle buone carte ma, a volte, di saper giocare bene una mano svantaggiosa.

Do you know," he added, "I feel sorry for Mr. Butler. He was too young to know better, but he robbed himself of life for the sake of thirty thousand a year that's clean wasted upon him. Why, thirty thousand, lump sum, wouldn't buy for him right now what ten cents he was layin' up would have bought him, when he was a kid, in the way of candy an' peanuts or a seat in nigger heaven.

I was actually away in Africa doing 'Generation Kill' while everyone was auditioning for Twilight. They all had, like, five different auditions: I was so lucky that I came back from Africa just in time and the actor who was playing Emmett fell through, lucky for me!

'Twilight' has been a great opportunity, and it's been great fun. Hey, if I'm 50, and someone still wants an autograph for 'Twilight,' OK, cool.