Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Buffett, Warren

Best Quotes about Opportunity

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

He's got the whole world at his feet and he can't find his shoes.

Williamson, John

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

Marx, Karl

The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Rowland, Helen

Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Hill, Napoleon

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Edison, Thomas A.

10.

You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.

Grade, Lord Lew

11.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

12.

Do you see difficulties in every opportunity or opportunities in every difficulty?

13.

Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening -- she makes one.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

14.

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

15.

Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm -- it was gone.

16.

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

17.

The door of opportunity is wide open if you are prepared.

18.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

19.

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

20.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Marden, Orison Swett

21.

A chip on the shoulder indicates that there is wood higher up.

Herbert, Jack

22.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

23.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

24.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.

Steichen, Edward

26.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

27.

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

28.

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

Nightingale, Earl

29.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

30.

You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.

Ellen Metcalf

31.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a-coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

Gough, John B.

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

Buffett, Warren

34.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

35.

Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad.

Proverb, Greek

36.

Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.

Sayle, Alexi

37.

Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back.

Herold, Don

38.

One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That's not true today. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

Rockerfeller, David

39.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

40.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

41.

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word'crisis.'One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.

John F. Kennedy

42.

Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish.

Ovid

43.

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

Collier, Robert

44.

Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

46.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

47.

One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

Wideman, John Edgar

48.

Opportunity is no more than a better way of serving and providing for humanities needs.

49.

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

Smiles, Samuel