Quotes About Opportunity

Luck can often mean simple taking advantage of a situation at the right moment, It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared.

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully for its hidden assets.

At his father's Avenue Z office, Donald was itching to break away from building basic housing for middle-class, outer-borough families. When Fred Trump did branch out beyond Brooklyn, it was to buy cheap plots from desperate sellers in California, Nevada, Ohio, and Virginia. Donald wanted something bigger.

A good managerial record is more a function of which boat you get into rather than how effectively you row"1 Warren Buffett

Whatever you want to do, do it know. There are only so many tomorrows.

Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows.

Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.

Each day is a lifetime. In the morning we are born. The day lies before us: vast and bright and new.

Each day is a lifetime.

Time is our greatest asset, learn to spend it wisely.

The inability to envision a certain kind of person doing a certain kind of thing because you've never seen someone who looks like him do it before is not just a vice. It's a luxury. What begins as a failure of the imagination ends as a market inefficiency: when you rule out an entire class of people from doing a job simply by their appearance, you are less likely to find the best person for the job.

In Bakersfield, California, a Mexican strawberry picker with an income of $14,000 and no English was lent every penny he needed to buy a house for $724,000.

A thought crossed his mind: How do you make poor people feel wealthy when wages are stagnant? You give them cheap loans.

With FRESH Prioritization, you can choose to move select older tasks back to near the top of the Opportunity Now list, if they are still important. But only if you decide they warrant it. In other words, older tasks need to earn their position near the top of your list.

It was the wound that caused this scar, and the blood it shed, that had saved my life, and had given me the opportunity to save hers.

The NFL had been eyeing New Orleans for its next franchise anyway. So a thinly veiled quid pro quo was offered—a franchise for New Orleans in exchange for the exemption

Even before he buried Frank, Charlie decided he'd stay with the outfit until it got to New Mexico Territory, draw his pay, and strike out for the gold camps around Silver City. He'd stake a claim and, if luck was with him, find a vein of silver or pan a stream filled with gold nuggets. If that didn't work out, he could always return to thieving for a stake and ride down into Old Mexico to avoid the law, or push on farther west to California.

The problem in most situations is not a lack of calling; but a fear of responding to the call.

Our answer, our opportunity, our chance to change the world has to come from the poetry that is already written on the walls of the soul.

Sometimes, the greatest safety can be found in taking the right risk. Whether it be an individual, a community or a country, when faced with tragedy or fearful uncertainty, we either become bigger and enter life more fully, or else we accept a diminished life and resign ourselves to a smaller way of being.

Until a person has failed significantly or missed the boat, they will not know how to hold the tension until the right moment or how to test the waters before pushing on.

If you want light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining." ? Guy Finley Quote

Listen friends, you have to face the truth: You are never going to be rich... The system is rigged in favor of the few, and your name is not among them, not now and not ever.

Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to have to make that happen myself.