Quotes About Opportunity

If I'm afraid to fall then how will I ever fly?

Until you see fear as an opportunity for growth, you won't grow beyond your current self.

You can't let the fear of failure keep you from taking the risks that you know are the right ones to take.

Darkness is but a door, scary not because it opens, but out of fear that it will never close

No matter how long the preparation, you will never feel ready to write an exam, to start a business, to be parent or even to die. Just go for it.

If I die on my way to the dance, it will be better than to survive having never lifted my feet.

Without the possibility of making mistakes, we wouldn't need to bother about making a decision.

We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fear has always made me feel worse.

Finances completely determine what we can do and how quickly we can move.

What's both fascinating and challenging about investing is that the changing nature of business and finance means you can never have it all figured out.

It is important that New York, in addition to its fashion, and finance, and tourism, and communications infrastructure, also begin developing venture infrastructure that's for real.

If I see darkness in the area of finances I bring light there.

If you don't plan to have someone work for you, you will work for someone else. There is no in-between.

The alluring, long-shot chance of a huge gain is the grease that lubricates the machine of innovation.

Get into Investment Banking

Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart.

My dad grew up basically in a hut in Taiwan without enough food to eat. And within one generation his son in America gets to do a comedy show about whatever he wants.

Do something. Anything. You're alive, and you'll only be for a few decades, and then it's done. You'll be in the ground, worm food. Make something and don't let fear consume you.

We want a better America, an America that will give its citizens, first of all, a higher and higher standard of living so that no child will cry for food in the midst of plenty.

Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.

I will go to the NAACP convention, and explain to the African-American community why they should demand paychecks instead of food stamps.

We picked their cotton. We cooked their food. We nursed their babies. Now we can run their cities. We can run their states. We will run the country.

It doesn't matter who you are, or what you've done, or think you can do. There's a confrontation with destiny awaiting you. Somewhere, there is a chile you cannot eat.

A free ride and free food are two of the three things no pilot ever turns down.