Quotes About Opportunity

The combination of economic inequality and economic segregation is deadly. It reinforces the advantages of those at the top while exacerbating and perpetuating the disadvantages of those at the bottom. Taken together, they shape not just inequality of economic resources, but also a more permanent and dysfunctional inequality of opportunity.

the Creative Economy is driven by the logic that seeks to fully harness—and no longer waste—human resources and talent.

the worst thing about regret is that it makes you duck the chance of new regret, just as you get a glimmer that nothing is worth doing unless it has the potential to fuck up your whole life.

Giving up the opportunity to sell something does not hurt as much as taking the money out of your wallet to pay for it. Opportunity costs are vague and abstract when compared to handing over actual cash.

When your neighbor tells you that you can't lose money buying (fill in the blank here) that is probably a good sign that it is time to get out of that type of investment.

people who are threatened with big losses and have a chance to break even will be unusually willing to take risks

Generally, the higher the stakes, the less often we are able to practice.

When you know something cannot be done, also remember the essential reason why, so later, when the circumstances have changed, you will not say 'It can't be done.

'Tis always morning somewhere in the world.

Continuous reoptimization (sometimes dignified by the name "flexibility") is the real enemy of happiness, as can be observed among young people who spend the day reorganizing their evening arrangements each time a better opportunity arises.

T]here is no fence or hedge round Time that has gone. You can go back and have what you like if you remember it well enough.

He kept thinking about Mary. What a fool he'd been to let her go. To think, with the thoughtless assurance of youth, that the world was replete with endless possibilities. He'd thought it a mistake to choose so early in life and embrace the present good. He'd been a great one for looking for greener pastures. He'd kept looking until all his pastures were brown with time. (Old Haunts)

He'd been a great one for looking for greener pastures. He'd kept looking until all his pastures were brown with time.

Feeling for the first time what it meant to kick open doors that kept closing, no matter how many legends had already passed through.

There's a Chinese saying. 'When is the best time to plan a tree? Twenty years ago.

When is the best time to plant a tree? Twenty years ago.

A woman of her skills! Just because she fucked up, does she think the world can't use her? we're down to gallons here. Hours and ounces. And she's going to roll over and die?

Her breakthrough comes as breakthroughs often do: by long and prepared accident.

When is the next best time? Now.' " "Ah! Okay!" The smile turns real. Until today, he has never planted anything. But Now, that next best of times, is long, and rewrites everything.

It's a daring step, but in the world game, no daring is fatal. The only thing that will kill you is failing to leap.

Life's moment is here. A test that it has not yet had.

The only thing that will kill you is failing to leap.

Best time to plant a tree? Twenty years ago." "Yep. And you always said the next best time was now." "Wrong. Next best time, nineteen years ago.

whatever work your hands can do, do now, for there is no work for you in that place where you are going.