Quotes About Opportunity

Before you invest in anything else, exhaust the possibilities of investing in your own business first.

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.

To be a successful businessman, you must have remarkable talents; and if you have such talents, why waste them on business?

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Another friend hired me to open doors for him in the moving and relocation business. I did that for 10 years, am still doing it. And I do some work for the Cubs, in community relations.

The greatest opportunities today are to go into business for yourself as an entrepreneur.

Do more and understand that all wealth came from poor people either as the entrepreneurs or the consumers who buy the product that keeps the entrepreneurs in business.

The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century ... has taken place via globalization.

Too many people think only of their own profit. But business opportunity seldom knocks on the door of self-centered people. No customer ever goes to a store merely to please the storekeeper.

A LOT OF PEOPLE DO NOT INVEST IN BUSINESS.. THEY INVEST IN BUSY-NESS (They Purchase A Job)

Out of the ashes of the music business, comes the rebirth of the musician business.

I've always thought legal addictions are a great way to create a business. Starbucks is a wonderful example.

It has always been my rule in business to make everything count.

When everyone is looking for gold, it's a good time to be in the pick and shovel business.

In our business, the windows of opportunity open and close with dazzling rapidity...I constantly have to remind people to seize the moment.

There is time to go long, time to go short and time to go fishing.

Racism, because it favors color over talent, is bad for business.

Thinking of getting into the leg-breaking business, so I can profitably sell crutches later.

The intelligent investor shouldn't ignore Mr. Market entirely. Instead, you should do business with him- but only to the extent that it serves your interests.

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

All that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.

Obvious prospects for physical growth in a business do not translate into obvious profits for investors.

Don't 'tolerate' mistakes. Embrace them!