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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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• There's an entrepreneur right now, scared to death, making excuses, saying, 'It's not the right time just yet.' There's no such thing as a good time. I started an apparel-manufacturing business in the tech-boom years. I mean, come on. Get out of your garage and go take a chance, and start your business.

  Kevin Plank

  Success, Business, Inspiration

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• Good English, well spoken and well written will open more doors than a college degree... Bad English will slam doors you don't even know exist.

  William Raspberry

  Education, Writing, College

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• Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

  FaceBook post by Barbara Brown Taylor from Nov 25, 2014

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• Going with the flow is responding to cues from the universe. When you go with the flow, you’re surfing Life force. It’s about wakeful trust and total collaboration with what’s showing up for you.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Life, Trust, Entrepreneur

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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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• Always think outside the box and embrace opportunities that appear, wherever they might be.

  Lakshmi Mittal

  Motivational, Thinking, Might

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• Occasions are rare; and those, who know how to seize upon them, are rarer.

  Josh Billings

  Choices, Rare Opportunities, Occasions

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• The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers.

  Walter Chrysler

  People, Achievement, Four

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

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Business, Second Chance

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

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• The message from Wal-Mart today to the rest of the business community is there need not be any conflict between the environment and the economy. We will find the way not only to reconcile (those), but to find new profits and new opportunities as we do the right thing.

  Al Gore

  Business, Community, Needs

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• It might appear that nothing is happening, but that's actually when it really happens.

  Keith Richards

  Might, Happens, Happenings

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• University is a wonderful opportunity to find out not just much more about the world, but much more about yourself, too.

  Robert F. Goheen

  World, Wonderful, About Yourself

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• We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Powerful, Political, Politics

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.3417, Delphi Classics

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• Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.

  B. C. Forbes

  Strong, Men, Waiting

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• Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.

  Bob Feller

  Baseball, Games, Yesterday

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• We sometimes emphasize the danger in a crisis without focusing on the opportunities that are there. We should feel a great sense of urgency because it is the most dangerous crisis we have ever faced, by far. But it also provides us with opportunities to do a lot of things we ought to be doing for other reasons anyway. And to solve this crisis we can develop a shared sense of moral purpose.

  Al Gore

  Focus, Environmental, Purpose

  "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. June 13, 2006.

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• Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.

  Suzan-Lori Parks

  Reflection, Compassion, Self

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• In the midst of difficulty lies opportunity.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Get Well, Lying

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• RESPONSIBILITY: Fulfill the obligations that the past posts to me. Embrace the opportunity for service based in love.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Responsibility, Past, Eternal Love

  Jonathan Huie, Mary Anne Radmacher (2009). “Simply An Inspired Life: Consciously Choosing Unbounded Happiness in Good Times & Bad”, p.159, Conari Press

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• Life is not about negative circumstances that happen to you, it's about what you do with the golden opportunities hidden within!

  Rhonda Byrne

  Negative, Golden, Life Is

  Rhonda Byrne (2013). “Hero”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Basketball, Preparation

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

  Earl Nightingale

  Inspiration, Acres, Moments

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.40, Lulu.com

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• If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Quoted in Decatur (Ill.) Daily Republican, 19 May 1882.

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• Be an opener of doors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Attitude, Doors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.117, Harvard University Press

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