Quotes About Opportunity

Lo cierto es que he usado esta estrategia más para ayudarme a huir de malas inversiones que para detectar las buenas.

Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir.

I ask them, 'How will you disrupt yourself, and how are you trying to disrupt yourself? If you're not, you're in for a real surprise.' Find the smartest 20-somethings in your company. I don't care if they're in the mail room or where they are. Give them permission to figure out how they would take down your company." PETER

Remembering that destination will help you make the single most important distinction in life, which is to distinguish between an opportunity to be seized and a temptation to be resisted.

Dani declared that courage was more important than confidence. When you are operating out of courage, you are saying that no matter how you feel about yourself or your opportunities or the outcome, you are going to take a risk and take a step toward what you want.

What we fear doing is usually what we most need to do.

Law 2: When given a choice … take both. Law

vida, como abogado, como médico, como agente de bolsa, o lo que sea?».

La cuestión del monopolio: ¿Empiezas con una parte grande de un mercado pequeño? La cuestión del secreto: ¿Has identificado una oportunidad única que los demás no ven? La cuestión de la distribución: ¿Tienes alguna manera no sólo de fabricar sino también de distribuir tu producto?

Endings don't have to be failures, especially when you choose to end a project or shut down a business. . . . Even the best gigs don't last forever. Nor should they.

I wish I would have known that there was no need to wait.

What's the worst that could happen? I encourage you to remember this often-neglected question as you begin to see the infinite possibilities outside of your current comfort zone. This period of collective panic is your big chance to dabble.

The top 1% often succeed despite how they train, not because of it. Superior genetics, or a luxurious full-time schedule, make up for a lot.

I took the shot." It was invigorating, even exciting. "Hey, when all the chips were on the line, you didn't leave your future up to others, YOU TOOK YOUR SHOT." Instantly I felt free and in control.

A qué problema te enfrentas a diario que aún no ha sido resuelto?» o «Dime un negocio fantástico que aún no haya sido creado por nadie».

Failure will happen, and failure is an opportunity to build resilience, to practice forgiveness of self and of others, and to gain wisdom.

not only use all the dreams that I have, but all that I can borrow.

Tons of people deserve to be successful because they're supersmart and interesting and work hard, but they just haven't had the luck.

Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else." –Fred Rogers

Other recession-born babies include Monopoly, Apple, Clif Bar, Scrabble, KFC, Domino's Pizza, FedEx, and Microsoft. This is no coincidence, as economic downturns produce discounted infrastructure, outstanding freelancers at bargain prices, and rock-bottom advertising deals—all impossible when everyone is optimistic.

trade a short-term, incremental gain for a potential longer-term, game-changing upside?

building trust is a powerful door to possibility.

It is more profitable to be a big fish in a small pond than a small undefined fish in a big pond.

You are 99 years old, you are on your deathbed, and you have a chance to come back to right now: what would you do?