Quotes About Opportunity

The challenge becomes not opportunity creation, but opportunity selection.

It takes discipline to say "No, thank you" to big opportunities.

10Xers distinguish themselves by an ability to recognize defining moments that call for disrupting their plans, changing the focus of their intensity, and/or rearranging their agenda, because of opportunity or peril, or both.

Yes, leadership is about vision. But leadership is equally about creating a climate where the truth is heard and the brutal facts confronted. There's a huge difference between the opportunity to "have your say" and the opportunity to be heard. The good-to-great leaders understood this distinction, creating a culture wherein people had a tremendous opportunity to be heard and, ultimately, for the truth to be heard.

Everyone gets luck, good and bad, but 10X winners make more of the luck they get.

What's the role of luck? Our research showed that the great companies were not generally luckier than the comparisons—they didn't get more good luck, less bad luck, bigger spikes of luck, or better timing of luck. Instead, they got a higher return on luck, making more of their luck than others.

we also found comparable amounts of luck in the control set of comparison cases we studied! The big winners did not generally get more good luck, less bad luck, bigger spikes of luck, or better-timed luck than their comparisons. What the best achieved, instead, was a higher return on luck.

Two key questions can help. First, if it were a hiring decision (rather than a "should this person get off the bus?" decision), would you hire the person again? Second, if the person came to tell you that he or she is leaving to pursue an exciting new opportunity, would you feel terribly disappointed or secretly relieved?

Slums were the first foothold of poor migrants to the city.

world is really wide. You will get a new opportunity at every new turn. So, be creative and be skillful. And the best skill is to use your mind rightly. Your mind is your power and your power is your destination.

Sometimes it's wiser to give a quarry extra line -- that's how to catch a fish, neh?

The talk had turned to business, and in the few short hours she had learned more about Hong Kong techniques than through all the reading she had done. More and more it was clear that unless you were on the inside, real power and real riches would escape you.

You can find friends in manure, sometimes, my son.

Sometimes you must put yourself in the way of destiny.

You can't make history all the time, Dougie. Sometimes the best you can do is make money.

Some men get the world, some men get ex-hookers and a trip to Arizona.

You only live once, buy Picassos whenever possible.

This moment and this chance, they are the same, and they are mine if I choose them,and I do. I want them. Now and as long as I can have them they are both precious and fleeting and gone in the blink of an eye, don't waste them. A moment and an opportunity and a life, all in the unseen tick of a clock holding me nowhere. My heart is beating. The walls are pale and quiet. I am surviving.

The future is unwritten. What will be will be.

that's how it works most of the time; we say the things that matter to people when it's already too late.

life was simple, we were born and we were going to die. There was nothing for us before we were born, and there would be nothing for us after we died. While we were here we had choices. While we were alive we had choices. We could choose to be and do whatever we wanted.

O futuro é um jogo. O tempo, uma das regras.

It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew was wrong. The

Business is all about risk taking and managing uncertainties and turbulence.