Quotes About Opportunity

Any seed or insect or lizard or mammal that found itself in LA had to believe that there was a chance to thrive. Living in Southern California was like waking up in a children's book titled Would Be If I Could Be.

Ain't no shame in bein' a grocer but it's bitch and a half if they think that that's all you're good for.

But all of those things were possible back then even though nobody

The first thing a black man and a poor man learns is that trouble is all he's got so that's what he has to work with.

Being challenged by the law was a rite of passage for any Negro who wanted to better himself or his situation.

But when you live a life among desperate men and women, any door you open might have Pandora written all over the other side.

Everything is possible for him who possesses courage and activity….and to the timid and hesitating everything is impossible, because it seems so.

Ye never saw dull weather clear without a shower; and if the world is turned upside down, why, honest men have the better chance to cut bread out of it.

We need a moderately-priced stock market… The market, like the Lord, helps those who help themselves. But, unlike the Lord, the market does not forgive those who know not what they do. For the investor, a too-high purchase price for the stock of an excellent company can undo the effects of a subsequent decade of favorable business developments.

Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble

Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill.

So smile when you read a headline that says "Investors lose as market falls." Edit it in your mind to "Disinvestors lose as market falls—but investors gain." Though writers often forget this truism, there is a buyer for every seller and what hurts one necessarily helps the other. (As they say in golf matches: "Every putt makes someone happy.")

An investor should act as though he had a lifetime decision card with just twenty punches on it.

I try to invest in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will.

I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful

The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money.

If you wait till you know everything it's too late

Read 500 pages like this every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest. All of you can do it, but I guarantee not many of you will do it.

I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.

The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.

A good business is not always a good purchase - although it's a good place to look for one.

A small chance of distress or disgrace cannot, in our view, be offset by a large chance of extra returns.