Quotes About Opportunity

Nothing ventured, nothing gained, but don't put all your eggs in one basket.

The prospect of getting rich is highly motivating, and few people get rich without taking a gamble.

I have everything to offer and nothing to lose

A problem is merely a solution waiting to be found.

Live large, because there are no extra days. -Tilt Family Motto

My diaries are full of such missed opportunities, but the stock market is merciful—it always gives the nincompoop a second chance.

The best way to handle a situation in which you love the company but not the current price is to make a small commitment and then increase it in the next sell-off.

A successful stockpicker has the same relationship with a drop in the market as a Minnesotan has with freezing weather. You know it's coming, and you're ready to ride it out, and when your favorite stocks go down with the rest, you jump at the chance to buy more.

My advice for the next decade: Keep on the lookout for tomorrow's big baggers. You're likely to find one.

To me, an investment is simply a gamble in which you've managed to tilt the odds in your favor.

The offspring of immigrant factory workers had a chance to go to college and become doctors, lawyers, executives, and even owners of the very companies where their parents and grandparents worked long hours for low pay.

Mastery of creative tension transforms the way one views "failure." Failure is, simply, a shortfall, evidence of the gap between vision and current reality. Failure is an opportunity for learning—about inaccurate pictures of current reality, about strategies that didn't work as expected, about the clarity of the vision. Failures are not about our unworthiness or powerlessness.

Failure is, simply, a shortfall, evidence of the gap between vision and current reality. Failure is an opportunity for learning—about inaccurate pictures of current reality, about strategies that didn't work as expected, about the clarity of the vision. Failures are not about our unworthiness or powerlessness.

the best time to start training for a job is when people have been talking about a surplus for several years and few others are entering it. That way, you finish your training just as the shortage develops."3 Traditionally

Kind of late to help him now. I missed my chance. Sins of omission, they will call it where I'm headed for.

Shop early for the best, we had often been told, and wait until just before the market closes for the cheapest.

What if it doesn't work out? Ah, but what if it does.

YOUTH is indeed wasted on the Young and Adventurous.

That spring when I had a great deal of potential and no money at all, I took a job as a janitor.

Had we but world enough, and time . . .

No one can take their eye off their core business or responsibilities, but anyone can spend a portion of their time and energies using little bets to discover, test, and improve new ideas.

what terrible pain—the pain of what I had not done, of what I had lost because I had not done all of that which I had not done. Whatever it was, I had no idea, I knew only that I had not done it.

fundamental nature of success: it's hidden among failures.

For instance, if we gaze deeply at the deceptively simple word opportunity, we have a chance to see hidden beauty shining from below, which is the Roman god Portunus, patron of harbors. Seen in this light every new circumstance is like sailing into a strange and distant port, which may offer a haven, if we choose to take refuge.