When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose: What a wonderful opportunity o start all over again, to turn over a new page.
When you have the opportunity, you strike.
Where one door closes, another opens.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.
Why are there so many people who never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity?
Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation.
Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represent opportunity.
You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own ''acres of diamonds.''
You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.
You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.
You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.
You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.
You must make your own opportunities.
Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
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