Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Opportunity creates desire.

- Proverb, Dutch

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Buffett, Warren

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

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

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

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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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Why are there so many people who never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity?

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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Wicker, John

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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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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

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

Horace

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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Herold, Don

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

Landers, Ann

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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.

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

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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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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

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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.

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

Menace, Dennis the

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The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

Estefan, Gloria

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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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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.