Quotes About Opportunity

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.

Chick's entrance into Ivy University Law School constituted an important step forward in his social and professional career. There was still a hard struggle ahead of him. The next few years would be decisive in determining his position in society. Against that background we can understand what the Italian Community Club meant to Chick Morelli.

I mean why should somebody go steal and break the law to get all they can when there's always some law where you can be legal and get it all anyway!

For the first time in his life he realized that sometimes in life you go through doors that only open one way. You can stand before them and think about whether you want to go through them or not. But when you do and the door closes behind you there is no way to go back. The door is featureless and unknobbed and smooth as a sheet of glass. You can pound on it and claw till your fingers are bleeding, scream until your throat is raw, but no one will open the door, no one will even hear you.

He has all the time in the world, he can pick and choose, all the time you have is the moment of his arrival.

S]ometimes in life you go through doors that only open one way. You can stand before them and think about whether you want to go through them or not. But when you do and the door closes behind you there is no way to go back. The door is featureless and unknobbed and smooth as a sheet of glass. You can pound on it and claw till your fingers are bleeding, scream until your throat is raw, but no one will open the door, no one will even hear you.

Sometimes any move at all is better than nothin. If you're right you're one up. If you're wrong you start over.

As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families.

Rights do not pertain to results, but only to chances. They

Every improvement in education, science, art, or government expands the chances of man on earth. Such expansion is no guarantee of equality. On

If we pull down those who are most fortunate and successful, shall we not by that very act defeat our own object? Those

You have a four-fold life to live: a body, a brain, a heart and a soul . . . these are your living tools. To use and develop them is not a task. . . . It is a golden opportunity.

The genius of American business lies in risk-taking, creativity, invention, and ambition.

The message I take all round the world is Britain is open for business.

When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater.

Alice's message for today—in Wonderland and the world at large—is that young women can do anything they like.

One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off.

The primary function of financial capitalism is to efficiently funnel money from those with an excess of it to those who need it.

the best fishing is done in the most stormy waters.

The point of this whole historical exercise is to establish the most important concept in finance, that risk and return are inextricably connected. If you desire the opportunity to achieve high returns, you have to shoulder high risks.