Quotes About Opportunity

extracted resources from cash-generating but low-growth arenas such

Two contradictory activities. From a company point of view, it makes perfect sense.

The temporary or "disposable" organizational form is all around us, and it fits well with strategies of rapid prototyping, quickly capitalizing on opportunities, and being willing to exit fast.

limit the downside cultural and business risks.

With discovery-driven growth (DDG), you invest small amounts of money—money you can afford to lose—to get the information that you need so that you can invest more confidently.

benefited from the declining category by developing an innovative business model—insurance, rather than simply relying on manufacturing.

No one is ever safe. So why not live as much as you can?

Polluted, packed, putrid, it's the only place where I have any room, any hope. I got to go back and stick it out. At least in New York City I can be more than a breeder of the next generation.

But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.

However small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance was there.

It is most unlikely. But--here comes the big but--not impossible.

I, Willy Wonka, have decided to allow five children – just five, mind you, and no more – to visit my factory this year.

Most of the really exciting things we do in our lives scare us to death. They wouldn't be exciting if they didn't.

Most of the really exciting things we do in our lives scare us to death. They wouldn't be exciting if they didn't.

That however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance was there.

My Great Glass Elevator is ready for anything! In we go! Into the breach, dear friends, into the breach!

When I was twelve, my mother said to me, 'I've entered you for Marlborough and Repton. Which would you like to go to?' Both were famous Public Schools, but that was all I knew about them. 'Repton,' I said. 'I'll go to Repton.' It was an easier word to say than Marlborough. 'Very well,' my mother said. 'You shall go to Repton.

University? Mr Wormwood shouted, bouncing up in his chair. Who wants to go to university, for heaven's sake! All they learn there is bad habits! That's not true, Miss Honey said. If you had a heart attack this minute and had to call a doctor, that doctor would be a university graduate. If you got sued for selling someone a rotten second-hand car, you'd have to get a lawyer and he'd be a university graduate, too. Do not despise clever people, Mr Wormwood.

Better to have a stomach full of butterflies than to feel like your life is passing you by.

The one thing that unites the people I know who are on satisfying and meaningful paths is that they kept trying things, kept exploring, kept pursuing new opportunities, kept searching until they discovered their ikigai. And then from there they never stop figuring it out because they understand how absolutely crucial this is in creating a life worth living.

Your blinking line is whatever sits in front of you waiting to be brought into existence.

What new and good thing is going to come out of even this? When you ask this question, you have taken something that was out of your control and reframed it as another opportunity to take part in the ongoing creation of the world.

The truth is, you want risk. Not too much that it overwhelms you, but some. You want some risk in your life. Risk is where the life is.

We want a little risk in our lives because it keeps things interesting. It wakes us up, it gives us a sense that we're alive and breathing and doing something with our lives.