The man who waits for things to turn up has his eyes fixed on his toes.
Opportunity Quotes
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune: Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat, And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures. (Julius […]
When one door is shut, another opens.
One man’s opportunism is another man’s statesmanship.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them.
We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
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.
The Chinese call luck opportunity and they say it knocks every day at your door. Some people hear it; some do not. It’s not enough to hear opportunity knock. You must let him in, greet him, make friends and work together.
Effective people are not problem-minded; they’re opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
