Quotes About Opportunities

A good businessman must have nose for business the same way a journalist has nose for news. In places where people see a lot of obstacles, I see a lot of opportunities. A good businessman sees where others don't see.

It's not the gifts you don't have that hold you back as much as the gifts you do have that you don't use.

The investment perspective on resource scarcity is conceptually straightforward: We need to price the risks correctly, and we need to look for investment opportunities in companies that provide solutions.

Use challenges to reassess your strategic progress.

Your customer service opens up unique opportunities to offer an excellent customer experience.

Our yesterdays hold broken and irreversible things for us. It is true that we have lost opportunities that will never return, but God can transform this destructive anxiety into a constructive thoughtfulness for the future. Let the past rest, but let it rest in the sweet embrace of Christ.     Leave the broken, irreversible past in His hands, and step out into the invincible future with Him.

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.

Then I'd have had to take my liberal arts degree and gotten a job at McDonald's or Burger King like all the rest of the history majors.

I wasn't going to get anywhere if I kept avoiding things, and I might miss something important.

I loved getting my M. B. A., and I really enjoyed being an accountant and financial analyst before I quit my day job twenty-five years ago to write full time. I just liked writing more…plus, I knew even then that as a full-time writer, I'd get plenty of chances to do business-type stuff, while as an accountant, I probably wouldn't get a lot of opportunities to write about dragons.

All starting points are equally valid.

I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.

what size and complexity do … is to multiply the opportunities for citizen involvement and action.

Right! It turns out there are at least five ways procrastination can actually be useful in certain instances.

Part of social success as an introvert is seeing your social battery extended and increased, so actively making the choice to look around and think about who you can introduce yourself to – that's going to push your boundaries and make you more capable of seizing the opportunities that you might miss out on otherwise.

La vida es demasiado corta para rechazar ofertas así.

Of particular importance to this hypothesis is the fact that children are exposed to many thousands of opportunities to learn words and phrases. Learning takes place gradually, as the number of links between language and meaning and among language forms are built up.

The 1980s have been described as the "lost decade" for Latin America. My view is different: it was one of lost opportunities.

Las oportunidades perdidas forman parte de la vida igual que las oportunidades aprovechadas, y una historia no puede detenerse en lo que podría haber sido.

One of our slogans is this: "Building crosscultural relationships is easier if we accept the fact that 40 percent of the time we will have no idea what's going on." In these situations, however, our reliance on God and our dependence on our global colleagues increases, creating greater opportunities for us to be on the receiving end of their care.

Without an informed electorate, politicians will continue to use the bottom billion merely for photo opportunities, rather than promoting real transformation.

The key obstacle to reforming aid is public opinion.. Public opinion drives them into the "I care" photo opportunities that dominate aid.

For years, it's driven me crazy that women don't have better roles, especially in comedies. I know so many funny women but I always felt... misogynist streak is too strong a term - but a dismissiveness.

We wonder if we will be the first generation in American history to leave our children with fewer opportunities and a less prosperous nation than the one we inherited.