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Opportunity Quotes by Famous Authors

1. “What’s the point of talking and thinking about the future which for the most part doesn’t depend on us? If the opportunity arises to do something-great, and if it doesn’t at least you’ll be glad you didn’t chatter about it beforehand.”

Ivan Turgenev

2. “I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.”

Camille Paglia

3. “You can’t pick cherries with your back to the tree.”

J.P. Morgan

4. “Never think you need to apologize for asking someone to give to a worthy cause, any more than as though you were giving him or her an opportunity to participate in a high-grade investment. The duty of giving is as much his or hers as is the duty of asking yours.”

John D. Rockefeller

5. “I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.”

John D. Rockefeller

6. “I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.”

John D. Rockefeller

7. “I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.”

John D. Rockefeller

8. “The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.”

John D. Rockefeller

9. “Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.”

John D. Rockefeller

10. “It is not the rich man’s son that the young struggler for advancement has to fear in the race for life, nor his nephew, nor his cousin. Let him look out for the dark horse in the boy who begins by sweeping out the office.”

Andrew Carnegie

11. “Neither the individual nor the race is improved by almsgiving. The best means of benefiting the community is to place within its reach the ladders upon which the aspiring can rise.”

Andrew Carnegie

12. “The battle of life is already half won by the young man who is brought in contact with high officials; and the great aim of every boy should be to do something beyond the sphere of his duties- something which attracts the attention of those over him.”

Andrew Carnegie

13. “The best time to expand is when no one else dares to take risks.”

Andrew Carnegie

14. “I choose free libraries as the best agencies for improving the masses of the people, because they give nothing for nothing. They only help those who help themselves.”

Andrew Carnegie

15. “The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.”

Andrew Carnegie

16. “The Republic may not give wealth or happiness, she has not promised these. It is the freedom to pursue these, not their realization, we can claim.”

Andrew Carnegie

17. “Success can be attained in any branch of labor. There’s always room at the top in every pursuit.”

Andrew Carnegie

18. “My hopes were high, and I looked every day for some change to take place. What it was to be I knew not, but that it would come I felt certain if I kept on. One day the chance came.”

Andrew Carnegie

19. “Men are developed the same way gold is mined. When gold is mined, several tons of dirt must be moved to get an ounce of gold; but one doesn’t go into the mine looking for dirt – one goes in looking for the gold.”

Andrew Carnegie

20. “You develop millionaires the way you mine gold. You expect to move tons of dirt to find an ounce of gold, but you don’t go into the mine looking for the dirt-you go in looking for the gold.”

Andrew Carnegie

21. “When you’ve worked hard and done well and walked through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you.”

Guy Kawasaki

22. “The good news about entrepreneurship is that your fate is in your hands. The bad news is that your fate is in your hands!”

Guy Kawasaki

23. “Everything you want is cheap or free. If you went to a venture capitalist and said: “I need money to buy tools.” You flunked the IQ test, I mean every tool that you need is free!”

Guy Kawasaki

24. “Sometimes it’s better to be lucky than smart.”

Guy Kawasaki

25. “Remember that nobodies are the new somebodies.”

Guy Kawasaki

26. “If you’re in enough places at enough times, then some of them are bound to be the right ones.”

Guy Kawasaki

27. “We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to women as freely as to men. If you ask me what offices they may fill, I reply—any. I do not care what case you put; let them be sea captains, if you will.”

Margaret Fuller

28. “Usually a good time to invest is when most people are scared of investing.”

Ankur Warikoo

29. “The day one is able to fix their relationship with themselves, they give themselves the opportunity to fix all their relationships.”

Ankur Warikoo

30. “Money buys freedom. Freedom is a privilege.”

Ankur Warikoo

31. “We will never be able to answer "what if?" We will only regret it!”

Ankur Warikoo

32. “Curiosity has created more opportunities than hard work ever will.”

Ankur Warikoo

33. “Everything has a market. The question is how big is it and whether that matches your ambition.”

Ankur Warikoo

34. “The key to having more opportunities in life is to give yourself enough opportunities to get curious.”

Ankur Warikoo

35. “If you don’t ask, the answer is always no.”

Ankur Warikoo

36. “It is not money that makes people change their orbit. It is opportunities.”

Ankur Warikoo

37. “The distance between ‘I could have’ and ‘I have’ is regret.”

Ankur Warikoo

38. “There’s a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.”

Sam Walton

39. “If everybody is doing it one way, there’s a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction.”

Sam Walton

40. “The first one is could a Wal-Mart-type story still occur in this day and age? My answer is of course it could happen again. Somewhere out there right now there’s someone – probably hundreds of thousands of someones – with good enough ideas to go all the way. It will be done again, over and over, providing that someone wants it badly enough to do what it takes to get there. It’s all a matter of attitude and the capacity to constantly study and question the management of the business.”

Sam Walton

41. “There’s absolutely no limit to what plain, ordinary, working people can accomplish if they’re given the opportunity and encouragement to do their best.”

Sam Walton

42. “Many of our best opportunities were created out of necessity.”

Sam Walton

43. “Give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same things as rich people.”

Sam Walton

44. “No poor, rural, weak, or black person should ever again have to bear the additional burden of being deprived of the opportunity for an education, a job, or simple justice.”

Jimmy Carter

45. “Go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.”

Jimmy Carter

46. “Habitat has opened up unprecedented opportunities for me to cross the chasm that separates those of us who are free, safe, financially secure, well fed and housed, and influential enough to shape our own destiny from our neighbors who enjoy few, if any, of these advantages of life.”

Jimmy Carter

47. “Within the stable economy it’s necessary to eliminate all forms of sexual discrimination, and to provide women for the first time in our history with economic opportunities equal to those of men.”

Jimmy Carter