Quotes About Opportunity

Too many people are missing their destiny a year at a time because they're too scared to think in decades!" (p. 127)

If life is a book, then read it while you can.

For the first time, a whole generation had the economic & educational opportunity to turn their backs on the dead end factory jobs of their parents, who, traumatized by two world wars, had responded by creating a safety blanket of conformity.

And the day came When the risk to remain Closed tightly in a bud Became more painful Than the risk it took to blossom. – Author unknown

Any desert land that will grow big sage will produce more fortunes thatn most gold mines -- if you can only get the water.

odds might be good, but the stakes were prohibitively high. He

The rising tide does not lift all boats. Those at the bottom and at the margin are considered undeserving; they are today's equivalent of scripture's widows, orphans, and immigrants.

A stage space has two rules: (1) Anything can happen and (2) Something must happen.

What if she was meant to be, or could have been, someone important in my life? I think that's what scares me: the randomness of everything. That the people who could be important to you might just pass you by. Or you pass them by.

I think that's what scares me: the randomness of everything. That the people who could be important to you might just pass you by. Or you pass them by. How do you know?

It is a shame that we so quickly lose that ability to believe in things; it limits the opportunities we have to transform ourselves, to save ourselves, for it puts the awful burden of transforming and saving ourselves on ourselves. Once you stop believing, you cannot pray, or make sacrifices or pilgrimages, or light candles. You are stuck with yourself, in a world without miracles.

What a torture to hear that a life had been available to me that I had not been man enough to live.

I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best - it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money - provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need it.

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Don't try to innovate for the future. Innovate for the present!

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship...the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

For most of the past forty years, the American economy has been successful in producing jobs but distressingly unsuccessful in producing jobs that lead to a livable income.

Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a man for work that does not yet exist and cannot yet be clearly defined.

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Entrepreneurs innovate. Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. It is the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship - the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

We're on Earth, now, remember. You can do anything you want here as long as you've got money.