Quotes About Opportunity

estás a punto de hacer historia.»

Lo recuerdo muy bien diciéndome que no me preocupara por lo que fuera a ser en un futuro porque el trabajo que haría aún no se había inventado…

No te preocupes por cuál será tu trabajo… Haz cosas que te interesen y, si las haces bien de verdad, encontrarás la manera de templarlas con una buena oportunidad de negocio"».

La tercera cosa es que cuando intentas hacer algo diez veces más grande, en lugar de un 10 por ciento mayor, no suele resultarte cien veces más difícil, pero la recompensa sí es cien veces mayor.»

Cuando tengas que optar entre dos cosas… elige ambas. 3.ª ley: Múltiples proyectos conducen a múltiples éxitos.

Lo que importa es si el trabajo te ofrece mucha diversidad,

Qué cosa hace usted y el mundo no se da cuenta de que es un negociazo de la hostia?».

the best opportunities may not even catch your attention at first. More often than not, great opportunities look unattractive on the surface. What makes an opportunity great is upside. If the potential upside were explicitly clear, the opportunity would have already been taken.

GOOD QUESTION TO ASK YOURSELF WHEN TACKLING INCUMBENT COMPANIES (OR IDEAS) "How is their bread buttered?" "What is it that they can't afford to say or think?

You must seize opportunities when they present themselves, not when they are convenient or obvious. The only way to cultivate your own luck is to be more flexible (you'll need to give up something for the right opportunity), humble (timing is out of your control), and gracious (when you see it, seize it!). Life's greatest opportunities run on their own schedule, not yours.

Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things." –Steve Jobs

Never let a good crisis go to waste. It's the universe challenging you to learn something new and rise to the next level of your potential." Kristen Ulmer

But not until I started PayPal did I fully realize that you don't have to wait to start something. So if you're planning to do something with your life, if you have a 10-year plan of how to get there, you should ask: Why can't you do this in 6 months?

Breaking your rules to co-invest with well-known investors is usually a bad idea, but following your rules when others reject a startup can work out extremely well.

As Tony recounted, Buffett told him, "Investing in yourself is the most important investment you'll ever make in your life…. There's no financial investment that'll ever match it, because if you develop more skill, more ability, more insight, more capacity, that's what's going to really provide economic freedom…. It's those skill sets that really make that happen.

Clear the path for the people above you and you will eventually create a path for yourself.

Riesgos y beneficios asimétricos:

Diversificación de riesgos: «Tienen

Because being wrong is just an opportunity to find more of the truth.

risks weren't that scary once you took them.

Christopher Carmichael, "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?

The universe doesn't conspire against you, but it doesn't go out of its way to line up all the pins either. Conditions are never perfect. "Someday" is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.

In other words, I was risking an unlikely and temporary 3 or 4 for a probable and permanent 9 or 10,

Usually, what we most fear doing is what we most need to do.