Quotes About Opportunity

Chodte za svojim stastim a vesmir vam otvori dvere aj tam, kde dovtedy boli iba mury.

Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for. The damned thing in the cave that was so dreaded has become the center.

Where you stumble, there your treasure lies.

Be a surfer. Watch the ocean. Figure out where the big waves are breaking and adjust accordingly.

Instead of freaking out about these constraints, embrace them. Let them guide you. Constraints drive innovation and force focus. Instead of trying to remove them, use them to your advantage.

respect to the Indians, because the very idea of America belongs to immigrants.

In America, immigration is the story of hope and achievement, of youth, of freedom, of creation. But all entrances on one stage are exits elsewhere.

Brains were being lured to California by mere money. Mere money and space, and sun, and steak, and Hollywood, and more money and opportunity and optimism and openness. All the Os but without one-upmanship. And there was ownership, and friendship, and a future. All inconsequential fripperies, according to the Old World: beads and mirrors. People who took the dollar in exchange for their brains were unpatriotic in much the same way that tax exiles were.

New York is like a divorcée looking for a richer second country.

When you do the things that you can do, you will find a way.

Whatever Fortune brings, Don't be afraid of doing things.

Tis late to hearken, late to smile, But better late than never; I shall have lived a little while Before I die for ever.

For the funds will fall and be the ruin of thousands, and when England is sunk into a salutary wretchedness and discontent, then our opportunity will come.

Almost is such a wonderful word, don't you think?" said the shopkeeper with a wink. "So full of wiggle rom and loopholes, so not absolutely anything.

Un alma derrotada, torturada por sí misma,que habría podido hacer mucho de haber nacido en una época ó ambiente apropiado.

Un hombre que se deslizaba desesperadamente cuesta abajo, incapaz de pagarse la ropa, la luz ó los alimentos; viviendo igual que una rata en el fondo de una embarcación abandonada, escurriéndose furtivamente por calles laterales, sufriendo a causa del talento frustrado y las oportunidades desperdiciadas.

you're always going to be too young for something important to you, too old for something else, and the timing is just not going to be right for a third set of things. That's life, and you can make yourself crazy by dwelling on that. Or you can figure out what you are the right age for, and what the timing is right for, and celebrate those things. Where do you suppose happiness lies?

Other people snap up the riskless profits pretty fast and bid the price of calculable risk opportunities to near their fair values. Things get a lot less crowded if you go for the incalculable risks, leaps of faith that cannot be inspected carefully before takeoff. So that is where you find extraordinary opportunities.

If no one gambled against the grain in good times, there would be no winners to inspire people in the bad times.

Most people wander through life, carelessly taking whatever risk crosses their paths without compensation, but never consciously accepting extra risk to pick up the money and other good things lying all around them.

Don't let your talents get rotten like fruits and vegetables that don't sell in the market! -Aaron Jhinkoo

Recessions are great because they unlock the best people.

Routine can drop you so deep in a hole that you can't dig out, and you can't live in a hole your entire life.

They never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity