Best Opportunity Quotes

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

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Business, Opportunity

  Napoleon Hill (2012). “Napoleon Hill Collection”, p.13, Penguin

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  Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

  Henry Ford

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

  Bill Gates

  Leadership, Business, Motivation

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.86, Hachette UK

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• When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Success, Encouraging

  Speech to United Negro College Fund, Indianapolis, Ind., 12 Apr. 1959

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

  Orison Swett Marden

  Inspirational, Strength, Strong

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• Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come.

  Janet Erskine Stuart

  Time, Teaching, Learning

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• In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.4, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Strength, Strong, Men

  Orison Swett Marden (2013). “The Wisdom of Orison Swett Marden”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

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• The secret of getting ahead is getting started

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Success, Tattoo

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• Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

  B. C. Forbes

  Inspirational, Motivational, Opportunity

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• Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Love, Life, Relationship

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  Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.25, American Foundation for the Blind

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

  Richard Branson

  Inspirational, Business, Opportunity

  FaceBook post by Richard Branson from May 09, 2016

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• If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

  Milton Berle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

  Demosthenes

  Inspirational, Motivational, Business

  "Dictionary of Quotations (Classical)" by Thomas Benfield Harbottle, (p. 511), 1897.

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• Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

  Bruce Barton

  Inspirational, Success, Opportunity

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• Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

  Emily Dickinson

  Encouraging, Spiritual, Not Giving Up

  Emily Dickinson (1994). “The Works of Emily Dickinson”, p.129, Wordsworth Editions

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• The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

  John Burroughs

  Inspirational, Humor, Opportunity

  John Burroughs (1908). “The Writings of John Burroughs: Leaf & tendrill”

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• Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell

  Oprah Winfrey

  Attitude, Opportunity, Doors

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• Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem.

  Joseph Sugarman

  Powerful, Positive Thinking, Opportunity

  Joseph Sugarman (1980). “Success forces”, McGraw-Hill/Contemporary

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• The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Motivational, Business

  Peter Drucker (2014). “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, p.33, Routledge

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

  Thomas A. Edison

  Funny, Life, Motivational

  "An Enemy Called Average". Book by John L. Mason, 1990.

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  I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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