Quotes About Opportunity

Ten minutes, once gone, are gone for good. Divide your life into ten-minute units, and don't waste even a minute.

Big Mac started life selling paper cups. He was someone else who didn't believe in wasting time.

Perhaps he was in a hurry because he didn't get the idea for McDonald's until he was aged 52.

la basura de un hombre es el tesoro de otro"; en este esquema, le pedimos a la gente que mire si tiene ropa, muebles o cualquier cosa que ya no use y los lleven a la oficina, donde hay un punto de recolección.

By 2016, Pitch To Rich had morphed into VOOM, the UK and Ireland's biggest and most valuable pitch competition, with more than £1 million of prizes on offer. As the posters said: 'I've got 99 problems but a pitch ain't one!

I became the lease holder of the Roof Gardens after a bouncer refused me entry for wearing jeans and looking too scruffy. I bought the place the next day, and gently informed the bouncer to let me in regardless of my clothing. He turned out to be a delightful gentleman and ended up working for us for another three decades.

If someone offers you an amazing opportunity and you're not sure you can do it, say yes - then learn how to do it later." Richard Branson

On impulse, Joan and I decided to fly down to the Virgin Islands. We had nowhere to stay and not very much money, but I heard that if you expressed a serious interest in buying an island the local estate agent would put you up for nothing in a grand villa and fly you all around the Virgin Islands by helicopter.

On 8 December 2003 we floated Virgin Blue on the stock market for A$2.3 billion. A$2.3 billion! This, the same airline we'd started with A$10 million only four years earlier, and had rejected a A$250 million offer for only two years previously.

In future just remember one thing: you're guaranteed to miss every shot you don't take.

En conclusión, este es mi consejo: trabaje duro para mejorar su suerte, no se ponga debajo de un árbol durante una tormenta y jamás sienta miedo de hablar con desconocidos. Nunca se sabe: ¡a lo mejor puede encontrarse con su propio Sergey!

Entrepreneurial business favors the open mind.

Moderation was the effect of congenital optimism. Why push too hard at an open door?

Young, healthy communities can afford to roll the dice.

I would say, then, that you are faced with a future in which education is going to be number one amongst the great world industries.

The old adage, 'If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is' isn't always correct. In fact, the suspicion, cynicism, and doubt that are inherent in this belief can and does keep people from taking advantage of excellent opportunities.

Meanwhile, life keeps moving forward. The truth is, there's no better time to be happy than right now. If not now, when?

Education has long been viewed in American society as "the great equalizer." But in practice, American schools are highly segregated by race and socioeconomic status, which defeats the equality goal. Research dating back five decades shows one of the most powerful ways to improve the life chances of disadvantaged students is giving them the opportunity to attend high-quality schools that educate rich and poor students under a single roof.135

Low-income students stuck in schools located in high-poverty areas are surrounded by peers who, because they have had less opportunity, are typically less academically engaged and more likely to act out than those in schools in higher-income neighborhoods.

It is not the miser who gets rich; but he who lays out his money in fruitful investments.

The riches of life, the love and joy and exhilaration of life can be found only with an upward look. This is an exciting world. It's cram-packed with opportunity. Great moments wait around every corner.

Behind many a successful person lies a string of lucky breaks that we have no inkling about.

He who may have failed back there has his chance to make good here;

He who may have failed back there has his chance to make good here; and he will not be judged by the position he holds so much as by the way he plays the game and does his job, however humble it may be....