Quotes about opportunity

"If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are."

Allen, James on opportunity   

"You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line."

Anderson, Bob on opportunity   

"We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization"

Arbiter, Gauis Petronius on opportunity
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"Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation."

Austen, Jane on opportunity
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"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."

Bacon, Francis on opportunity
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"Opportunity makes a thief."

Bacon, Francis on opportunity   

"Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand."

Barton, Bruce on opportunity   

"Opportunities are everywhere. The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employers' reliance on short-term staff. There may be fewer jobs for life, but there are more jobs in a lifetime."

Benington, Lucy on opportunity   

"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."

Berle, Milton on opportunity
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"Lack of opportunity is often nothing more than lack of purpose or direction"

Best of Bits and Pieces on opportunity   

"Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming."

Branson, Richard on opportunity   

"Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity."

Brown Jr., H. Jackson on opportunity
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"Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor."

Brown Jr., H. Jackson on opportunity
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"Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures."

Brown, Gene on opportunity
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"If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness."

Brown, Les on opportunity
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"You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing."

Buffett, Warren on opportunity   

"Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised."

Buffett, Warren on opportunity
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"The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are."

Burroughs, John on opportunity   

"When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose: What a wonderful opportunity o start all over again, to turn over a new page."

Caddy, Eileen on opportunity
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"This American system of ours. call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it."

Capone, Al on opportunity   

"Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: Are your ready?"

Carson, Johnny on opportunity
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"Right now a moment is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate. give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time."

Cezanne, Paul on opportunity   

"Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet."

Chapin Jr., Roy D. on opportunity
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"The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor."

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel on opportunity
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"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

Churchill, Winston on opportunity
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"Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases."

Collier, Jeremy on opportunity   

"Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service."

Collier, Robert on opportunity   

"You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door."

Collier, Robert on opportunity   

"As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!"

Collier, Robert on opportunity   

"Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy."

Colton, Charles Caleb on opportunity   

"Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them."

Colton, Charles Caleb on opportunity   

"Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it."

Conwell, Russel H. on opportunity   

"Too often the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late."

Coolidge, Rita on opportunity
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"The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in."

Copeland, William Taylor on opportunity
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"There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job."

Crane, George W. on opportunity
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"Make the iron hot by striking it."

Cromwell, Oliver on opportunity   

"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises."

Demosthenes on opportunity   

"Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door."

Dickinson, Emily on opportunity
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"Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage."

Disraeli, Benjamin on opportunity
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"A good deal happens in a man's life that he isn't responsible for. Fortunate openings occur; but it is safe to remember that such breaks are occurring all the time, and other things being equal, the advantage goes to the man who is ready."

Downs, Lawrence on opportunity