Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

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

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

Crane, George W.

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

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.

Young, Brigham

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

Hendricks, Howard

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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

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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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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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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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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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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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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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

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

Branson, Richard

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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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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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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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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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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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

Wicker, John

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