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

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own acres of diamonds.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Edison, Thomas A.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Greek

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

Wicker, John

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

10.

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

11.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

12.

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

13.

When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.

Keller, Helen

14.

Not being beautiful was the true blessing... Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

Meir, Golda

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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

16.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

17.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

18.

Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity.

Proverb, Arabian

19.

Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye.

Hendricks, Howard

20.

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

21.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

22.

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

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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 must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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

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

Sayle, Alexi

27.

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

Nightingale, Earl

28.

Every minute starts an hour and every minute is a new opportunity. Each time the clock ticks you have a chance to start over, to say, do, think, or feel something in such a way that you and the world are better for it.

29.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

30.

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

Branson, Richard

31.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Herbert, Jack

33.

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Sharp, Tom

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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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

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Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.

Flanders, Alberta

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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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The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

Marden, Orison Swett

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There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.

Crane, George W.

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

Koch, Sally

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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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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

43.

People wait for opportunity to come along...yet it is there every morning.

Menace, Dennis the

44.

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

46.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

47.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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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

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

50.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen