Quotes About Opportunity

Even when we want to be timid and play it safe, we should pause for a moment to imagine what we might be missing.

The times make those who live in them

Life is short. The world is big. It awaits your exploration. If you're not living on the edge, you're just taking up way too much space.

It was one of the charms of the International Zone that you could get anything you wanted if you paid for it. Do anything, too, for that matter; - there were no incorruptibles. It was only a question of price.

Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really.

You need rich people in your society not so much because in spending their money they create jobs, but because of what they have to do to get rich. I'm not talking about the trickle-down effect here. I'm not saying that if you let Henry Ford get rich, he'll hire you as a waiter at his next party. I'm saying that he'll make you a tractor to replace your horse.

So if you can figure out a way to get in a design war with a company big enough that its software is designed by product managers, they'll never be able to keep up with you. These opportunities are not easy to find, though. It's hard to engage a big company in a design war, just as it's hard to engage an opponent inside a castle in hand-to-hand combat.

If you're in a job that feels safe, you are not going to get exceptional, because if there is no danger there is almost certainly no leverage.

Just fix things that seem broken, regardless of whether it seems likes the problem is important enough to build a company on.

If you're in a job that feels safe, you are not going to get rich, because if there is no danger there is almost certainly no leverage.

So although there may be, in certain specific moments (like your family, this month) a fixed amount of money available to trade with other people for things you want, there is not a fixed amount of wealth in the world.

You need rich people in your society not so much because in spending their money they create jobs, but because of what they have to do to get rich.

I'm not saying that if you let Henry Ford get rich, he'll hire you as a waiter at his next party. I'm saying that he'll make you a tractor to replace your horse.

Startups are not magic. They don't change the laws of wealth creation. They just represent a point at the far end of the curve.

Measurement and Leverage To get rich you need to get yourself in a situation with two things, measurement and leverage. You need to be in a position where your performance can be measured, or there is no way to get paid more by doing more. And you have to have leverage, in the sense that the decisions you make have a big effect.

Once you're allowed to do that, people who want to get rich can do it by generating wealth instead of stealing it.

You can have the greatest job skills in the world, but if no one knows you have them or can't find you to offer you a job, then those skills go to waste. Just

Incentives aren't the only thing that matter for economic growth. Opportunity is also crucial, and extreme inequality deprives many people of the opportunity to fulfill their potential, and government programs that reduce inequality can make the nation as a whole richer by reducing that waste.

Sometimes you hit the jackpot and sometimes the jackpot hits you, I guess.

You were only waiting for this moment to be free.

What should you do? Become an investor with a time horizon greater than one year (the emphasis is on "greater"). Give your investments time to grow.

our lietenants knew those splotches in the rafters / were splotches of gangrene and gore / and opportunity was "rife" rather than "ripe." / The rank and file had fallen silent / since we'd held out the idea of heaver or the hereafter.

The world is your oyster... ...too bad you're allergic to shellfish.

Keep your life as simple and efficient as possible. How? Learn with each stumble or failure. Failure is only an opportunity to excel. The perception in which your mind chooses to visualize your challenges in life will enable your successes or enhance your failures.