Quotes about Opportunity
We cannot continue to provide for their needs, then fault them for lacking ambition to improve their situation." They had borrowed a small one-horse
- Tracie Peterson
Once organizational health is properly understood and placed into the right context, it will surpass all other disciplines in business as the greatest opportunity for improvement and competitive advantage.
- Patrick Lencioni
give the situation an opportunity to work itself out before reacting. Many times these situations resolve themselves or aren't quite as urgent as he perceives, but before you know it, he's heightened the intensity with a flurry of messages.
- Patrick Lencioni
You need rich people in your society not so much because in spending their money they create jobs, but because of what they have to do to get rich. I'm not talking about the trickle-down effect here. I'm not saying that if you let Henry Ford get rich, he'll hire you as a waiter at his next party. I'm saying that he'll make you a tractor to replace your horse.
- Paul Graham
In our world, you sink or swim, and there are no excuses.
- Paul Graham
If you're in a job that feels safe, you are not going to get exceptional, because if there is no danger there is almost certainly no leverage.
- Paul Graham
Just fix things that seem broken, regardless of whether it seems likes the problem is important enough to build a company on.
- Paul Graham
Measurement and Leverage To get rich you need to get yourself in a situation with two things, measurement and leverage. You need to be in a position where your performance can be measured, or there is no way to get paid more by doing more. And you have to have leverage, in the sense that the decisions you make have a big effect.
- Paul Graham
God always offers us a second chance in life.
- Paulo Coelho
Sometimes life is very mean: a person can spend days, weeks, months and years without feeling new. Then, when a door opens - a positive avalanche pours in. One moment, you have nothing, the next, you have more than you can cope with.
- Paulo Coelho
Nothing in this world happens by chance.
- Paulo Coelho
Everyday God gives us a moment in which it is possible to change everything that makes us unhappy.
- Paulo Coelho