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

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Landers, Ann

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

Sharp, Tom

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

10.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

11.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

12.

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

Young, Brigham

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

Menace, Dennis the

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

16.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

17.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

18.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

19.

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.

20.

Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.

Collier, Robert

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Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

24.

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

25.

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

28.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

30.

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

Williamson, John

33.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Branson, Richard

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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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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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Opportunity is ever worth expecting; let your hook be ever hanging ready, the fish will be in the pool where you least imagine it to be.

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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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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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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

44.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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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

50.

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