Quotes About Opportunity

You can do so much in ten minutes' time. Ten minutes, once gone, are gone for good. Divide your life into ten-minute units and sacrifice as few of them as possible in meaningless activity." –Ingvar Kamprad

In this way, quitting should never be seen as the end of something grudging and unpleasant. Rather, it's a vital step in beginning something new and wonderful.

Don't worry about what you're going to do with the rest of your life. Just find a profitable and interesting use for the next three to five years.

A problem is a terrible thing to waste." This is highly related to the "scratch your own itch" thread that pops up throughout this book. Peter expands: "I think of problems as gold mines. The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest business opportunities.

What did I key into the sat-nav system of my life [where do I want to be 10, 20 years from now]? What is my ultimate destination? You have to look at that every time you feel overwhelmed. 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.

you put creativity in everything, everything becomes available to you.' . . .

Everything you want is on the other side of fear." Stephanie McMahon

There is very little luck involved. Winning your great job is about hard work, stamina, grit, ingenuity, and timing.

Is There a Quote That Guides Your Life? "It's a belief: Life is always happening for us, not to us. It's our job to find out where the benefit is. If we do, life is magnificent.

Don't call it a problem if you can avoid it.

Because most of us say yes to too much stuff, and then, we let these little, mediocre things fill our lives…. The problem is, when that occasional, 'Oh my God, hell yeah!' thing comes along, you don't have enough time to give it the attention that you should, because you've said yes to too much other little, half-ass stuff, right?

The Art of Possibility, de Rosamund Stone Zander

For all of the most important things, the timing always sucks. Waiting for a good time to quit your job? The stars will never align and the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time.

see every day: "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." It's a short reminder that success can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations we are willing to have, and by the number of uncomfortable actions we are willing to take.

Si te remontas veinte o veinticinco años, me habría gustado saber que no había ninguna necesidad de esperar. Fui a la universidad. Fui a la facultad de Derecho. Trabajé en el mundo de la abogacía y de la banca, aunque no durante una cantidad terrible de tiempo. Pero hasta que inicié PayPal no me di cuenta por completo de que no tienes que esperar para emprender algo.

el cual depende a partes iguales de la elección y el azar.»

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

Free education is abundant, all over the Internet. It's the desire to learn that's scarce.

Well, I decided to flip it around and travel when I was really young, when I had zero money. And I had experiences that, basically, even a billion dollars couldn't have bought.

Si no llegas el primero a la mente de los compradores, no pierdas la esperanza. Busca una nueva categoría en la que puedas ser el primero. No es tan difícil como puede parecer.

Every step that produces a single job for a currently unemployed European should be taken. Every centimetre of red tape that puts someone out of work must be torn up.

Europe's biggest problem is its success.

There are people who own cars and are getting free cell phones. A car helps one find a job, too. Where do you draw the line?

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.