Quotes About Opportunity

The company began attracting influential new investors.

Innovation is driven by people who have both good theories and the opportunity to be part of a group that can implement them. The

By the time Apple went public a year later, Xerox's $1 million worth of shares were worth $17.6 million. But Apple got the better end of the bargain. Jobs and his colleagues went to see Xerox PARC's technology in December 1979 and, when Jobs realized he hadn't been shown enough, got an even fuller demonstration a few days later. Larry Tesler was one of the Xerox scientists called

a key lesson for innovation: Understand which industries are symbiotic so that you can capitalize on how they will spur each other on.

La mejor manera de predecir el futuro es inventarlo.

American science and engineering was even more sexist than it is today," Jennings said.

Well, Steve, I think there's more than one way of looking at it. I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it.

It is 1958," he began. "IBM passes up a chance to buy a young fledgling company that has invented a new technology called xerography. Two years later, Xerox was born, and IBM has been kicking themselves ever since.

I don't think that kids starting out with computers today get as welcome of an entry to programming as I did.

The best thing ever to happen to Steve is when we fired him, told him to get lost

La mejor forma de predecir el futuro es inventarlo

Quieres pasarte el resto de tu vida vendiendo agua azucarada o quieres una oportunidad para cambiar el mundo?

a person who is too fearful will end up performing defensively and thus fail to seize offensive advantages.

When a really great dream shows up," Page later said, "grab it!

Among the many surprising things about the life of Albert Einstein was the trouble he had getting an academic job.

Unlike many other countries around the world, this great nation we live in supports and does not stigmatize entrepreneurial risk-taking.

The governor of Pennsylvania was among the enthusiastic, and he offered Franklin what could have been a lucrative patent. "But I declined it," Franklin noted in his autobiography. "As we enjoy great advantages from the invention of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously." It was a noble and sincere sentiment.

Lost time is never found again.

Franklin's own idea was more expansive: he believed in encouraging and providing opportunities for all people to succeed based on their diligence

Diligence is the mother of good luck 

Our habit of wishing backward from what is to what might have been is the soft but persistent tapping that cracks the crystal.

people, including types that I didn't like much at all but felt I had something to learn or to gain from.

To the British, Dunkirk symbolizes a generosity of spirit, a willingness to sacrifice for the common good. To Americans, it has come to mean Mrs. Miniver, little ships, The Snow Goose, escape by sea. To the French, it suggests bitter defeat; to the Germans, opportunity forever lost.

Black men of our day were never told, The sky's the limit. ... We could aspire to Joe Louis but never Henry Ford.