319 quotes found
“If I have to choose between opportunity and preparation, I’d choose preparation, without it opportunity is useless.”
“Although Jobs later said that he was not plotting to take over Apple at the time, Ellison thought it was inevitable. " Anyone who spent more than a half hour with Amelio would realize that he could...”
“To see a shadow and think it is a tree-that is a pity but to see a tree and to think it a shadow can be fatal.”
“Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work so most people don't recognize them.”
“Great opportunities to help others seldom come but small ones come daily.”
“Men do with opportunities as children do at the seashore they fill their little hands with sand and then let the grains fall through one by one till all are gone.”
“Do not wait for ideal circumstances nor for the best opportunities they will never come.”
“If a man looks sharply and attentively he shall see fortune for though she be blind yet she is not invisible.”
“Opportunity is as scarce as oxygen men fairly breathe it and do not know it.”
“Present opportunities are neglected and attainable good is slighted by minds busied in extensive ranges and intent upon future advantages.”
“Opportunities multiply as they are seized they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.”
“To improve the golden moment of opportunity and catch the good that is within our reach is the great art of life.”
“When one door closes another opens. But we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”
“Vigilance in watching opportunity tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost possible achievement-these are the martial virtues which mu...”
“If Fortune calls offer him a seat.”
“What the student calls a tragedy the master calls a butterfly.”
“If you want greater prosperity in your life start forming a vacuum to receive it.”
“Unless a man has trained himself for his chance the chance will only make him ridiculous.”
“The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day and of doing good once in a year.”
