Quotes about opportunity
opportunity choices want
You can create whatever you want. You just have to know what you want and take the opportunities as they come your way. We are who we choose to be. Will Smith
opportunity errors encounters
Businesses always have opportunities to improve service, product lines, manufacturing techniques, and the like, and obviously these opportunities should be seized. But a business that constantly encounters major change also encounters many chances for major error Warren Buffett
opportunity swings waiting
Investing is the greatest business in the world because you never have to swing. You stand at the plate; the pitcher throws you General Motors at 47! U.S. Steel at 39! And nobody calls a strike on you. There's no penalty except opportunity. All day you wait for the pitch you like; then, when the fielders are asleep, you step up and hit it.
opportunity interesting balance
We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet.
opportunity investing encounters
A great investment opportunity occurs when a marvelous business encounters a one-time huge, but solvable problem.
opportunity long management
A market downturn, doesn't bother us. For us and our long term investors, it is an opportunity to increase our ownership of great companies with great management at good prices. Only for short term investors and market timers is a correction not an opportunity.
opportunity years effort
In earlier years, a lesser effort produced literally dozens of comparable opportunities. It is difficult to be objective about the causes for such diminution of one's own productivity. Three factors that seem apparent are: (1) a somewhat changed market environment; (2) our increased size; and (3) substantially more competition.
opportunity interesting long
We rarely use much debt and, when we do, we attempt to structure it on a long-term fixed rate basis. We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet. This conservatism has penalized our results but it is the only behavior that leaves us comfortable, considering our fiduciary obligations to policyholders, depositors, lenders and the many equity holders who have committed unusually large portions of their net worth to our care.
opportunity america flow
Money will always flow toward opportunity, and there is an abundance of that in America.
opportunity buffets causes
Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.
opportunity important investing
It is more important to say "no" to an opportunity, than to say "yes".
opportunity track missing
I have no use whatsoever for projections or forecasts. They create an illusion of apparent precision. The more meticulous they are, the more concerned you should be. We never look at projections, but we care very much about, and look very deeply at, track records. If a company has a lousy track record, but a very bright future, we will miss the opportunity...
opportunity people faces
Well, some people create their own opportunities; others go where opportunities are the greatest; others fail to recognize opportunity when they are face to face with it. Walter Chrysler
opportunity people four
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.
opportunity expression people
Participation: What I intend to create is the opportunity for people to participate in the transformation of people. For me it is the highest expression of humanity to contribute, to facilitate, to participate in the transformation of humanity. Werner Erhard
opportunity world
I didn't arrive at the opportunity to make the world work for everyone by figuring out how to do it.
opportunity differences people
What we create together is a relationship in which our work can show up as making a difference in people's lives. I welcome the unprecedented opportunity for us to work globally on that which concerns us all as human beings.
opportunity overwhelmed ifs
Opportunity: it's not really scarce. It's everywhere. If you really were any good, you'd be overwhelmed by it.
opportunity expression creating
What we are engaged in creating is the opportunity for people to participate in the transformation of peoples' lives and of life itself. This context of transformation is a context of freedom and opportunity, of empowerment and human joy, of contribution and of participation. Participation in this transformation is, for me, the fullest expression of being.
opportunity world firsts
You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities. Wayne Swan
opportunity shells catharsis
You're free because you don't have to expose yourself, and you can go wild, and let your id completely out of its box, and nobody will see you because you're operating through a surrogate. It's an opportunity to crack open your shell, to melt down yourself, and just let yourself go. It's a form of catharsis for me. Wayne White
opportunity self play
A play presents a self-enclosed little world for the audience to examine. It's an opportunity to look objectively at a group of people, to assess them, to react to them, and to measure oneself against them, to ask 'Am I like that?' Wallace Shawn
opportunity judging lasts
The richest princes and the poorest beggars are to have one great and just judge at the last day who will not distinguish betweenthem according to their ranks when in life but according to the neglected opportunities afforded to each. How much greater then, as the opportunities were greater, must be the condemnation of the one than of the other? Samuel Richardson
opportunity men thinking
If a woman knows a man to be a libertine, yet will, without scruple, give him her company, he will think half the ceremony between them is over; and will probably only want an opportunity to make her repent of her confidence in him.
opportunity challenges found
Our greatest challenge-our greatest opportunity-is found in these words: 'Choose ye this day....'. William Arthur Ward
opportunity knocking difficult
Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards.
opportunity engagement actors
Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me. Walter Koenig
opportunity neglected life-opportunity
Present opportunities are not to be neglected; they rarely visit us twice. Voltaire
opportunity priorities attention
The Far East is of particular significance for us in terms of this region's priority development. Over the last few years, let us say even over the last decades, we were faced with many problems here. We paid little attention to this territory although it deserves a lot more of it, because it concentrates great wealth as well as opportunities for Russia's future development. Vladimir Putin
opportunity self-improvement improvement
Never neglect an opportunity for improvement. William Jones
opportunity starting-over being-positive
Failure is just another opportunity to start over. Yogi Berra
opportunity greatness special
There comes a special moment in everyone's life, a moment for which that person was born. That special opportunity, when he seizes it, will fulfill his mission - a mission for which he is uniquely qualified. In that moment, he will find greatness. It is his finest hour. Winston Churchill
opportunity problem pessimist
A pessimist sees problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems.