OPPORTUNITY
Quotes
1
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
— Duke Ellington
2
...there is only one genuine misfortune: not to be born.
— Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
3
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
4
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
— Henry J. Kaiser
5
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
— Helen Keller
6
I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
— Mark Twain
7
Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)
— Horace
8
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage.
— Benjamin Disraeli
9
It is not impossibilities which fill us with the deepest despair, but possibilities which we have failed to realize.
— Robert Mallet
10
Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
— Hippocrates
11
A man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry.
— Ecclesiastes 8:15
12
...where legitimate opportunities are closed, illegitimate opportunities are seized. Whatever opens opportunity and hope will help to prevent crime and foster responsibility.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
13
Bad times have a scientific value...We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sayings
1
When a fool has made up his mind, the market has gone by.
— Spanish proverb
2
Some people not only expect opportunity to knock, they expect it to beat the door down.
3
No opportunity is ever lost. Someone else seizes the ones you missed.
4
Opportunity knocks but once.
Jokes
1
First Entrepreneur: “I’ve got a great idea: I’m going to open up a bar and grill in the middle of the Sahara Desert.”
Second Entrepreneur: “That’s a ridiculous idea. You’ll be lucky to get more than one customer a month.”
First Entrepreneur: “Okay, but just think how thirsty he’ll be!”
2
The fellow was joined at the bar by a voluptuous woman who soon made her talents and charms abundantly clear. “I’ll make your dreams come true,” she whispered, “for $150.”
“That’s a lot of money,” the guy pointed out, admiring the cleavage set forth under his nose.
“I’m worth it,” she assured him breathily. “For $150, I’ll act out your wildest, hottest fantasy. In fact I can make any three words come true. Just dream them up, baby.” “Any three words? For $150?” The man’s voice grew husky as the woman’s hand crept further and further up his inner thigh.
She nodded, reaching the other hand up to caress the back of his neck while the fellow considered the offer. Finally he leaned back with a big smile and announced. “Okay, it’s a deal!” He leaned over and whispered,
“Paint my house.”