Quotes About Opportunity

When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?

I understand small business growth. I was one.

A white boy that makes C's in college can make it to the White House.

She ran after the garbage truck, yelling, "Am I too late for the garbage?" "No, jump in!"

British education is probably the best in the world, if you can survive it. If you can't there is nothing left for you but the diplomatic corps.

So I was getting into my car and this bloke says to me, 'Can you give me a lift?' I said, 'Sure, you look great, the world's your oyster, go for it!'

Good luck is just bad luck with its hair combed.

If I hadn't done this I might have ended up digging the roads.

I had two thoughts about it. One was I could do that, and the next one was I'll never get to do that.

I got a business card because I wanna win some lunches. That's what my business card says: Mitch Hedberg, Potential Lunch Winner. Gimme a call, maybe we'll have lunch. If I'm lucky!

I think we need not only to eliminate the tollbooth to the middle class, I think we should knock down the tollbooth.

Horseman. I know you were born back when women were thought of as little more than brood mares and slaves, but it's the twenty-first century, and we can do anything a man does.

Not a Harvard-type education, just a not-sticking-up-a-liquor-store-type education.

If we can send a person to the moon, we can send someone with AIDS to the moon, and then someday we can send everybody with AIDS to the moon.

Community college is like a disco with books: "Here's ten dollars; let me get my learn on!"

I'm looking forward to a future where there are roles of greater vulnerability and humor involved.

For every woman who's ever wondered about the path not taken, Fenton and Steinke mine—with tremendous humor and insight—the mixed blessing of unexpected second chances.

When you come to a detour, take it.

There are lots of fish in the sea. Some are sharks, some are angels, and some are bottom feeders.

In my experience, "what the hell" is generally the most interesting decision.

Opportunity may only knock once, but temptation'll knock down the damn door and drag you out by the hair.

If I want to catch the damn worm I get outta bed.

If one door closes and another door opens, chances are your house is haunted.

We thought it was nice of you to let him have a go, because, in England, he wouldn't be trusted with a pair of scissors.