Quotes About Opportunity

Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

A true business opportunity is the that an entrepreneur invents to grow him or herself. Not to work in, but to work on.

I went to school and made good grades and went to college. So I was afforded an opportunity through my parents' hard work that most people don't have.

I tried for modelling work but it was a bit slow and that's when I took a part-time job at McDonalds. It gave me income while I was waiting for my big break and at the very least I could eat.

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

Hard work is often the easy work you did not do at the proper time.

If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.

In not having an appointment at Harvard, I'm in the company of a great many people whose work I admire tremendously, in particular women of color.

Nobody forces you to work at Wal-Mart. Start your own business! Sell something to Wal-Mart!

Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.

This really is a merger of equals. I wouldn't have come back to work for anything less than this fantastic opportunity. This lets me combine my two great loves - technology and biscuits.

Leaders create an environment in which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.

Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.

The greatest challenge of the next 50 years, I believe, will be to create dignified work for everyone... not through handouts and charity, but through market forces.

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Motown was the mecca. It was every writer's dream to work there.

I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.

You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have.

I've grown to love California: It's the dream of every English musician to come here and work in the sunshine. To walk up Sunset Boulevard, knowing you're going to make music - that's it.

I'm not a believer of luck. I think opportunity and hard work becomes luck.

When you take high risks, the rewards are higher. So sometimes I'll gamble just to see what happens. If it doesn't work, I know I can't do that.

But no, I've just been very lucky. But I've worked hard, and the harder you work, the luckier you seem to get.

With the number of people I ignore, I'm lucky I work at all in this town.