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

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

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

Flanders, Alberta

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

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

YoungJr., Whitney

11.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

12.

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

Horace

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Hendricks, Howard

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Landers, Ann

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

18.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

Jackson, Jesse

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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

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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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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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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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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Crane, George W.

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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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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

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We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Iacocca, Lee

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

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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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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

Williamson, John

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

Proverb, Greek

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What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live -- with your self-respect alive and growing.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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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

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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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