Quotes About Opportunity

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So how can one make money in the market? I told you about: #1. Pick some stocks and hold them forever.

Everything is a game. Understanding the rules allows you to succeed.

Always take the job, pursue the life, and have the friends that allow you to have as much freedom as possible.

Supply and demand. If you reduce the supply of you by saying no, then the demand for you goes up and you make more money—and have more fun.

If a small town doesn't have a laundromat, and if you open one up, you can be pretty confident you'll have customers. If your laundromat is unique in any way, then perhaps you can scale it.

In chess there's a saying: "Only the good players are lucky.

Money you lose you can always make back. But even five minutes of time lost is gone forever.

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If too many things have to happen in order to bring about the situation you want, then back out of it and try again later.

IDEAS ARE THE CURRENCY OF LIFE. Not money. Money gets depleted until you go broke. But good ideas buy you good experiences, buy you better ideas, buy you better experiences, buy you more time, save your life.

The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

You took the best, so why not take the rest?

It's a great city, Paris, a beautiful city––and––it was very good for me.

Any society inevitably produces its criminals, but a society at once rigid and unstable can do nothing whatever to alleviate the poverty of its lowest members, cannot present to the hypothetical young man at the crucial moment that so-well-advertised right path.

You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason. The limits of your ambition were, thus expected to be set forever.... You were not expected to aspire to excellence: you were expected to make peace with mediocrity.

Every Negro boy—in my situation during those years, at least—who reaches this point realizes, at once, profoundly, because he wants to live, that he stands in great peril and must find, with speed, a "thing," a gimmick, to lift him out, to start him on his way. And it does not matter what the gimmick is.

People are always saying, we must wait, we must wait. what are they waiting for?

America, of all the Western nations, has been best placed to prove the uselessness and the obsolescence of the concept of color. But it has not dated to accept this opportunity, or even to conceive of it as an opportunity.

And in any case, what really exercises my mind is not this hypothetical day on which some other Negro "first" will become the first Negro President. What I am really curious about is just what kind of country he'll be President of.

Victory awaits him who has everything in order—luck people call it. Defeat is certain for him who has neglected to take the necessary precautions in time; this is called bad luck." —Roald Amundsen, The South Pole

Hewlett Packard Chairman Built Company by Design, Calculator by Chance.

The fact that something is a "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity" is irrelevant, unless it fits within the three circles. A great company will have many once-in-a-lifetime opportunities

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