Quotes About Opportunity

Many's the man lost much just because he missed a perfect opportunity to say nothing (page 64)

Corporate governance is a huge issue too. We don't have women on these corporate boards. More than half of the students in law school are women, more than half of the women, I think, in medical school now are women.

You never know what'll happen in politics.

There is no such thing as coincidence, only hitsuzen.

The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.

Money has been the most serious handicap that we have ever met. There are times when poverty is fortunate

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it.

A criminal is a person with predatory instincts; but, without sufficient capital to form a corporation.

When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, it's at the bottom. It's the people who are in school systems that don't educate, neighborhoods where there is a lot of crime, drugs, the whole bit.

no va a ser una vida fácil. Pero es una vida nueva

Opportunity is a bird that never perches.

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, "At my age, I don't even buy green bananas."

Just 2 percent of the world's population and 5 percent of white people in the U.S. have blond hair, but 35 percent of female U.S. senators and 48 percent of female CEOs at S&P 500 companies are

It is never too late to do what is right.

Faith is not about a building or a lifestyle. You can minister in many ways besides attending services or being a preacher. And I think that that's what I feel most thankful for--that I have the opportunity to minister now, in my own way.

I don't know that I aspired to be in politics, though, no. I mean, this was not a goal of mine. This was not a part of my original life plan. But having done television, and having been able to be in the public eye, and get a platform and a microphone, so to speak -- both figuratively and literally -- I have an opportunity to speak and have people listen.

If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others.

I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to try and help kids with disabilities.

Whenever we have thanked these men and women for what they have done for us, without exception they have expressed gratitude for having the chance to help - because they grew as they served.

If you defer investing your time and energy until you see that you need to, chances are it will already be too late.

Disruptive technologies typically enable new markets to emerge.

Remember that wasted minute at the start of the day? Hard luck but you'll never find it again.

You still could go to some industry or some university or the government and if you could persuade them you had something on the ball—why, then, they might put up the cash after cutting themselves in on just about all of the profits. And, naturally, they'd run the show because it was their money and all you had done was the sweating and the bleeding.

And also don't forget, the reason opportunity is often missed is that it usually comes disguised as hard work.