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Quotes About Opportunity

It's not Don't kill your host. It's Don't burn your bridges until after you've crossed them.
~ David Quammen
no imagines que estos virus tienen una estrategia deliberada. No pienses que guardan una clase de responsabilidad maligna contra los seres humanos. "Se trata sólo de oportunidad", dijo. No significa que vienen por nosotros. Más bien, de una manera u otra, nosotros somos los que vamos a ellos. Les damos la oportunidad de infectarnos cuando nos metemos con sus huéspedes reservorios, cualesquiera que éstos sean.
~ David Quammen
Ecological circumstance provides opportunity for spillover. Evolution seizes opportunity, explores possibilities, and helps convert spillovers to pandemics.
~ David Quammen
It's not yet too late [for juvenile delinquents]. There's still time to nudge them, if we think about nudging them rather than just punishing them.
~ David R. Dow
I felt that if there wasn't going to be a good opportunity, then I would just go back to second units which I love, keep working with great directors, keep learning and knowing that the opportunity would come when the time was right.
~ David R. Ellis
The challenge is to find our destiny in exactly what we are refusing to engage in.
~ David Richo
I often talk about how great it is to live just a half hour from New York City, which provides me access to the finest theaters, museums, and restaurants in the world. The way I take advantage of this access is to hang out every night at Charlie's, which is about eight minutes from my house.
~ David Rosenfelt
Les hommes normaux ne savent pas que tout est possible.
~ David Rousset
Everyone deserved a chance at a better life. And shame on his government for treating these people like criminals.
~ David S. Brody
Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.
~ David Sarnoff
Investing entails risk, and risk means that you could lose money occasionally for reasons that are beyond your control. However, you can make sure to reduce the possibility of errors by controlling your decision making process.
~ David Schneider
You can set up a new business venture in Hong Kong and you don't have to constantly check back on what your invested capital is doing.
~ David Schneider
Tully always had a knack for seeing opportunity where others couldn't. A true entrepreneur, he developed several companies from scratch with enormous success, but also with a fair share of failures and mistakes.
~ David Schneider
Good investments can be purchased at prices that generate high returns adjusted for inflation.
~ David Schneider
real estate is cheap and offers great rental yields, they buy real estate.
~ David Schneider
He understood that during depressed markets, if you can get a decent average price at a bottom price range, it would make the selling part much easier, even if you misjudged the timing of the sales. To
~ David Schneider
when a publicly listed company decides to go private again, as Dell Computers did in 2013. Take this setback with decorum, receive your cash, keep it in your cash portfolio, and wait for the next opportunity. A proxy fight or even becoming a private investor in a new entity is not worth your work and time -- especially for individual investors. Listen
~ David Schneider
At the risk of repeating myself, every investor's goal is to buy an investment at a low price and then sell it at a higher price. Buy low and sell high! The one thing that always keeps you from accomplishing this simple mission is yourself, not because making the purchase or sale is difficult to find out or to accomplish.
~ David Schneider
There is a good side to every situation.
~ David Schwartz
I wish someone had shaken me and said, "Intervene while you can before it's too late." It may not have made a difference, but I don't know.
~ David Sheff
Regardless of whether a child seems to be exceptional, mediocre, or even awful at any particular skill at a particular point in time, the potential exists for that
~ David Shenk
It's good to be good, but it's better to be lucky.
~ David Simon
Grab onto life and live it well. Don't sit and watch it pass by, and don't overindulge. Never shy away from a challenge or hard work or improvement on all fronts. Fuse your intellect and will together to create an edifice the gods themselves would envy.
~ David Sinclair
Playing to win involves viewing a loss as an opportunity to learn and improve. Getting
~ David Sirlin