Opportunity Quotes - Page 18

• The only place opportunity cannot be found is in a closed-minded person.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Work, Creativity, Ideas

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• Opportunities do not float like clouds in the sky. They're attached to people. If you're looking for an opportunity, you're really looking for a person.

  Reid Hoffman

  Clouds, Sky, People

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

  Rosamond Lehmann

  People, Equal

  Rosamond Lehmann (1975). “The ballad and the source”, Harvest Books

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• American businessmen have taken advantage of the opportunities which existed in Europe and Europeans seem not to have been aware of.

  Emilio Pucci

  Taken, Europe, Advantage

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Women need opportunity and encouragement. If a girl can climb mountains, she can do anything positive within her field of work.

  Samina Baig

  Girl, Encouragement, Mountain

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• There is the expectation that a younger generation has the opportunity to redeem the crimes and failings of their elders and would have the strength and idealism to do so.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Expectations, Generations, Failing

  Joyce Carol Oates' address to graduating class at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts, May 28, 2006.

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• It seems unwise to allocate a large portion of investable capital to any one deep value opportunity, even if the latter promises a large expected return.

  John Mihaljevic

  Promise, Return, One Deep

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• Opportunities are where the complaints are.

  Jack Ma

  Complaints

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• The key to building wealth is to preserve capital and wait patiently for the right opportunity to make the extraordinary gains.

  Victor Sperandeo

  Keys, Waiting, Building Wealth

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• Delayed answers to prayer are not only trials of faith; they also give us opportunities to honor God through our steadfast confidence in Him, even when facing the apparent denial of our request.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Giving, Honor

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• The internet's perfect for all manner of things, but productive discussion ain't one of them. It provides scant room for debate and infinite opportunities for fruitless point-scoring: the heady combination of perceived anonymity, gestated responses, random heckling and a notional “live audience” quickly conspire to create a “perfect storm” of perpetual bickering.

  Charlie Brooker

  Perfect, Storm, Heckling

  Charlie Brooker (2009). “Dawn of the Dumb”, p.164, Faber & Faber

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• It is better to be early than too late in recognizing the passing of one era, the waning of old investment favorites and the advent of a new era affording new opportunities for the investor.

  Thomas Rowe Price, Jr.

  Too Late, Eras, Advent

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• Over the past six years [since implementing RIMS] we have added very few additional full-time jobs, but we have brought in $120 million of new business . . . These efficiencies have really given us the ability to take advantage of new opportunities and expand our business.

  Don Richardson

  Jobs, Past, Years

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• Ive learned the truth in these sayings: Luck is when opportunity meets preparation and The right project will find you.

  Tony Oller

  Preparation, Luck, Projects

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• Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.

  Booker T. Washington

  Grievance

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• In early 2008, it was confirmed that there would be an opportunity to build applications for the iPhone. We were fortunate enough to make the right call on that: to bet early, to put resources into it and have a pretty good application in the store at the moment when it opened.

  Jeremy Stoppelman

  Iphone, Would Be, Moments

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• Use testimonial letters from satisfied customers at every
  opportunity.

  Brian Tracy

  Use, Letters, Satisfied Customers

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• It's not enough to have a dream, Unless you're willing to pursue it. It's not enough to know what's right, Unless you're strong enough to do it. It's not enough to learn the truth, Unless you also learn to live it. It's not enough to reach for love, Unless you care enough to give it Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

  Samuel Smiles

  Dream, Courage, Strong

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• My experiences with gender bias are probably the norm. What I found was that expectations of women were simply lower, and this resulted in being overlooked for certain opportunities.

  Heather Bresch

  Gender Bias, Expectations, Found

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• To be a great man it is necessary to turn to account all opportunities.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Turns, Accounts

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• Frankly, the president, during the first opportunity I had to be in a Cabinet meeting, before we started the meeting, he said, Folks, before we begin this meeting, I'm going to call on General Ashcroft and ask him invite the wisdom and presence of God in what we do. And I thought to myself how ashamed I'd been that so many times in my life I had entered upon great important tasks and I had cheated myself and those that I had served of a blessing.

  John Ashcroft

  Blessing, Scary, Important

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• Climbing is an amazing, unique sport, and I want to share that with as many people as possible. I want to be an ambassador for the sport and raise the profile. I try to take advantage of any opportunity to share climbing with the world.

  Chris Sharma

  Sports, Unique, Climbing

  Source: espn.go.com

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• When forms begin to crumble there is always an opportunity for great deepening. By deepening I mean the arising of who you are beyond form.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mean, Form, Who You Are

  Source: jhaines6.wordpress.com

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• When great loss happens - deaths close to you or your own approaching death - this is an opportunity for stepping completely out of identification with form and realizing the essence of who you are, or that the essence of anyone who is suffering or dying is beyond death.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Loss, Essence, Suffering

  Source: jhaines6.wordpress.com

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• What a lot of people don't understand is that when you change your thinking, when you accept different concepts, then life mirrors those for you. If you can get the concept that you're worthy and loveable and that you deserve to have a better life, life starts bringing those opportunities to you, because that's your belief system.

  Louise Hay

  Thinking, Mirrors, People

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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