Quotes About Opportunity

Katya had given Mr Blay to understand that he could turn up at any hour of the day or night and he took full and regular advantage of the offer.

Don't turn your back, don't show your profile, You'll never know when it's your turn to go.

Laymen, in Strike's experience, were obsessed with motive: opportunity topped the professional's list.

They were separated by infinite disparities, by the lotteries of birth and chance, by faults of judgement and lucky breaks.

They were separated by infinite disparities, by the lotteries of birth and chance, by faults of judgment and lucky breaks.

Play the hand you have, Antonio, that's all anybody expects.

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

One thing my dad always told me, was he would make sure I always had what he didn't have. He couldn't play basketball because he didn't have tennis shoes - so I had five pairs of tennis shoes.

We are, paradoxically, unkind to the present, ignoring the opportunity to project it into the future, forgetting it as soon as it is past. As we would injure children by spoiling them, we injure time by being too attentive to its ephemera.

The defining characteristics of modern liberalism are radical egalitarianism (the equality of outcomes rather than of opportunities) and radical individualism (the drastic reduction of limits to personal gratification).

High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams come true.

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?

What Would You Attempt If You Knew You Could Not Fail?

We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it.

is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Hire newcomers that other people in your company will dislike." David

The lesson from the Big Mac story is that innovations that ought to be scaled won't happen everywhere but can happen anywhere.

on outside the meeting and agree on a steward to be responsible for it. With frequent, crisp stand-up meetings, there can never be the excuse that the opportunity to communicate was not there. We insist that bad news travels just as fast

It is far cheaper to build schoolhouses than prisons, and it is much better to have scholars than convicts.

Chief among these headwinds is the rise of inequality that since 1970 has steadily directed an ever larger share of the fruits of the American growth machine to the top of the income distribution.

Over the years, we have come to identify quality in a college not by whom it serves but by how many students it excludes. Let us not be a sacred priesthood protecting the temple, but rather the fulfillers of dreams.

Psalm 118:24 This is the day the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.

What I am referring to is the Theory of Next, which states: The key to maintaining a positive mental attitude is to recognize that no one deal is that important. The person with a true positive mental attitude possesses the power to say "Next!" and quickly move on to the next deal when things don't work out.

That's because time brings into play the Fiddle Theory, which states: The longer you fiddle around with a deal, the greater the odds that it will never close.