Quotes About Opportunity

That's why I think life is so incredible, right? Anything is possible. You can be one way one day, and then you can have one experience that could be tiny-itty-bitty or big, and it can shift your whole focus and your whole life.

Anything is possible in this world. I really believe that.

Anything is possible, and that's something we should not lose sight of. The inspiration and the permission to dream is huge.

My dad always taught me if I have my education, anything is possible.

My attitude is there are at least hundreds of interesting startups that are going to get going in every year.

Preparation + Attitude + Opportunity + Action = Luck.

Don't pick the wrong target when you're angry, and don't hurt the ones you love or the ones who love you, because if you keep a good attitude and are prepared to do your work, you just might get an opportunity out of the blue.

There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, but there is a chance for us whenever we cease work and become stargazers.

More fortunes in money and in the material things of life have been lost by those who hesitated out of fear than by those who ventured too quickly and without caution.

R&D is a special class of spending that often is equated, mistakenly, with investment spending. Investments presume knowledge, albeit imperfect, about future costs and returns. R&D represents an effort to gain a stake in future opportunities before anything is known about future costs and returns.

Learning implies that every person in every process must have the freedom to observe and identify change and have the power to recommend opportunities for improvement.

Ben Franklin advises his grandson not to let even the American Revolution interrupt his studies, urging of young adulthood, "This is the time of life in which you are to lay the foundations of your future improvement and of your importance among men. If this season is neglected, it will be like cutting off the spring from the year.

As the golden news spread beyond California to the outside world, it triggered the most astonishing mass movement of peoples since the Crusades. From all over the planet they came—from Mexico and Peru and Chile and Argentina, from Oregon and Hawaii and Australia and New Zealand and China, from the American North and the American South, from Britain and France and Germany and Italy and Greece and Russia.

Fatigue could be the dealmaker's friend.

Don't focus on what sucks, focus on what's possible

The biggest regrets we will have in life are not what we've done, but what we haven't done

No, It's hard to uproot yourself and really become yourself in another soil, but it's also an opportunity, another kind of growth.

Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

I only have one desire, the ultimate desire is to make our country completely independent, our people completely free, all compatriots have food to eat, clothes to wear, everyone has the opportunity to study.

Good things happen to those who dress well.

That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.

The Chinese write the word "crisis" with the same symbol as the word "opportunity.

When some people have to run a 100 metre race with sandbags on their legs, the fact that no one is allowed to have a head start does not make the race fair. Equality of opportunity is absolutely necessary but not sufficient in building a genuinely fair and efficient society.

I personally think that society is responsible for a very significant percentage of what I've earned. If you stick me down in the middle of Bangladesh or Peru or someplace, you'll find out how much this talent is going to produce in the wrong kind of soil. I will be struggling thirty years later. I work in a market system that happens to reward what I do very well – disproportionately well.