Quotes About Opportunity

As president, he lectured a young relative about to enter college that "every hour misspent is lost forever" and that "future years cannot compensate for lost days at this period of your life.

Already so flush that he had invested in his first railroad stock, with cash to spare for the firm, Rockefeller was far more receptive.

Perhaps if Rockefeller had made himself available at the beginning of his career as he now did at the end, he might not have been sitting in the witness stand.

Gates himself invested in several of the companies he managed for Rockefeller, and in 1902 he cashed in a tidy $500,000 profit.

Rockefeller knew that he was overpaying but couldn't resist a deal that would certify his position as the world's largest oil refiner at age thirty-one.

Rockefeller was fortunate to have applied his money at the precise moment that medical research matured as a discipline and offered unbounded opportunities.

He believed there was a time to think and then a time to act.

It proved to be the luckiest stroke of his career.

He thought Jack might fare better in the new environment.

To the young American Ã¢â'¬Â¦ the paths to fortune are innumerable and all open;

Rockefeller never passed up a chance to exploit a legitimate advantage against his beleaguered rivals.

No longer at the mercy of unpredictable economic forces, he thrived even in recessions.

it was a more auspicious time for an American banker than it had been when Peabody

Hamilton did not know it, but he just wrote himself out of poverty.

It is, in my opinion, the opportunity of a lifetime, one of those opportunities, the seizing or failing to seize, which marks the difference between success and failure in life."84

As with personal accounts, it never wanted to appear too eager for business.

In April 1803, President Jefferson reached the zenith of his popularity with the Louisiana Purchase. For a mere pittance of fifteen million dollars, the United States acquired 828,000 square miles between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains, doubling American territory

Each of his children had been matched to a black scholarship student whose education was paid for by the family

No business experience was ever wasted upon Rockefeller.

The first day of the rest of my life.

Time to shit or get off the pot.

If you can see a bandwagon, it's too late to get on.

Then we could collate all the possibles and go to work with the holy trinity of detectives everywhere: means, motive, opportunity. Means and opportunity wouldn't signify much. By definition nobody would be on the possibles list unless they had been proved to have opportunity. And everybody in the army was physically capable of swinging a tire iron or a crowbar against the back of an unsuspecting victim's head. It was probably a rough equivalent of the most basic entry requirement.

Second conclusion: If you can see a bandwagon, it's too late to get on. I think the person who said that to me