Identify & Seize Opportunities Quotes
Opportunity is rarely labeled and never waits. The man prepared to recognize it, and quick enough to act on it, catches what everyone else calls luck. This Freedom path holds history's sharpest quotes on spotting and seizing opportunity. Scroll through and put them to work.
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“Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.”
“If Google teaches you anything, it's that small ideas can be big.”
“Pioneers get slaughtered, but the settlers prosper.”
“The wise ones bet heavily when the world offers them that opportunity. They bet big when they have the odds. And the rest of the time, they don't.”
“Opportunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss.”
“If you want to have a better performance than the crowd, you must do things differently from the crowd.”
“I don't have big ideas. I sometimes have small ideas, which seem to work out.”
“Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.”
“Business opportunities are like buses; there's always another one coming.”
“Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.”
“If you spot an opportunity and are really excited by it, throw yourself into it with everything you've got”
“Don't pass up something that's attractive today because you think you will find something better tomorrow.”
“Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem.”
“Watch for big problems, they disguise big opportunities.”
“The best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.”
“A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.”
“When you have tremendous conviction on a trade, you have to go for the jugular. It takes courage to be a pig.”
“People tend to think that in order to start a new business they have to come up with something new and dazzling, but that's a myth, and it's often propagated by venture capitalists.”
“Every startup should address a real and demonstrated need in the world. If you build a solution to a problem lots of people have, it's so easy to sell your product to the world.”
“Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.”
“Wherever there is change, and wherever there is uncertainty, there is opportunity.”
“Know thine opportunity.”
“The best way to start a business is with as little money as possible. You're selling a skill you have and you start slowly. Starting with nothing is where the big bucks are made for real.”
“The opportunity of a lifetime must be seized within the lifetime of the opportunity.”
“The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.”
“The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.”
“Three things that never come back: the spent arrow; the spoken word; the lost opportunity.”
“Being too far ahead of your time is indistinguishable from being wrong.”
“Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble”
“Aspiring entrepreneurs have to actually do something that they feel strongly passionate about. If you had a terrible experience, you should despise the experience to the extent that you are continuously seeking a solution for it.”
“If we tried to think of a good idea, we wouldn't have been able to think of a good idea. You just have to find the solution for a problem in your own life.”
“History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes.”
“I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars; I look for 1-foot bars that I can step over.”
“Held in the palms of thousands of disgruntled people over the centuries have been ideas worth millions - if they only had taken the first step and then followed through.”
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