Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Branson, Richard

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

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

A wise man doesn't just wait for the right opportunity, He creates the right opportunity.

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

Barton, Bruce

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

God supplies us with the opportunity, but He cannot take advantage of it for us.

Some people steer by the light from the stars, while others steer by the lights from each passing ship.

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Collier, Robert

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There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.

Kettering, Charles F.

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.

Mandino, Og

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

YoungJr., Whitney

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Landers, Ann

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Some say opportunity knocks only once, That is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it.

L'Amour, Louis

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

Ovid

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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

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily.

Koch, Sally

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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

Forbes, B. C.

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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

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Lack of opportunity is often nothing more than lack of purpose or direction

Best of Bits and Pieces

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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

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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Opportunities multiply as they are seized, they die when neglected.

Wicker, John

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.

Lehmann, Rosamond

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People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Thatcher, Margaret

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One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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Was a great high wall there that tried to stop me. Was a great big sign there said private Property but on the back side it didn't say nothing. That side was made for you and me.

Guthrie, Woody

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's good luck. You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.

Schwartz, David J.

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Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represent opportunity.

Kennedy, John F.

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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Do not wait for ideal circumstances nor for the best opportunities; they will never come.

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The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity -- an opportunity to be polite -- an opportunity to be manly -- an opportunity to be honest -- an opportunity to make friends.

Marden, Orison Swett

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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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

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Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity.

Sugarman, Joseph

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Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day.

Horace