Quotes about Opportunity

That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

If the risk-reward ratio is right, you can make big money buying trouble.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms.

When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.

I think that there are these moments of a crisis that give us the courage and encouragement to try something that actually may be better than how we were doing it before.

And then we'll all go off to sweet life, 'cause now is the time and we all know time!

I see as much as doors'll allow, open or shut.

Now he'd bought a new suit to go back in; blue with pencil stripes, vest and all—eleven dollars on Third Avenue, with a watch and watch chain, and a portable typewriter with which he was going to start writing in a Denver rooming house as soon as he got a job there.

The greatest tragedy in life is that some prayers go unanswered as they go unasked.

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

I was occasionally getting calls for some things. But I would say, 22 to 29 was a lot of scuffling. Hoping to get called for bad wedding gigs and I did do an off-Broadway show for about 15 months.