Quotes About Opportunity

The Paradox of Choice

Even in failure there is success.

The lack of attention paid to an employee's first day is mind-boggling. What a wasted opportunity to make a new team member feel included and appreciated. Imagine if you treated a first date like a new employee: "I've got some meetings stacked up right now, so why don't you get settled in the passenger seat of the car and I'll swing back in a few hours?

Any time in life you're tempted to think, 'Should I do this OR that?' instead, ask yourself, 'Is there a way I can do this AND that?

Success emerges from the quality of the decisions we make and the quantity of luck we receive. We can't control luck. But we can control the way we make choices.

The opportunity to co-create is a gift you give your customer as a way to summon their imagination.

The year is 1947. It is the best of times, it is the worst of times.

If she had another chance, she thinks, she would do it differently. But chance is a slippery customer, and she can feel Amit's hands growing cold.

Seorang pahlawan tetap pahlawan, tidak peduli apa kastanya. Kemampuan lebih penting daripada kelahiran yang kebetulan." -Duryodana

If they can put one man on the moon why can't they put them all there?

How wretched is the man who sees the perfect opportunity and still waits for a better one.

Fortune has hair in front but is bald behind.

Talent is not universal but it is widely spread: Give enough people the capacity to create, and inevitably gems will emerge.

We are entering an era of unprecedented choice. And thats a good thing.

When the tools of production are available to everyone, everyone becomes a producer.

Diamonds can be found anywhere.

entrepreneurship has meant either setting up a corner grocery shop or some other sort of modest local business or, more rarely, a total pie-in-the-sky crapshoot around an idea that is more likely to bring ruination than riches.

Remember that person you wanted to be? There's still time.

And when something wasn't working, you changed it. Breakdowns lead to breakthroughs.

Mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.

Time, used correctly, is among your most potent assets.

A lot of network admins have put off learning IPv6, which is a huge mistake. Even if it doesn't impact your current career, you're definitely limiting your future prospects if you aren't strong with IPv6 – and you're strengthening your prospects when you are!

There's a saying: "Life is first draft". Means you pretty much make it up as you go along, and there's never a chance for a rewrite.

Life is savagely unfair. It ignores our deep-seated convictions and places a disproportionate emphasis on the decisions we make in split seconds.