Opportunity Quotes

• Capitalism gives all of us a great opportunity if we seize it with both hands and hang on to it.

  

  Al Capone
  • Opportunity
  • Capitalism
  • Hang On

• Russia's only real geostrategic option - the option that would give Russia a realistic international role and also maximize the opportunity of transforming and socially modernizing itself - is Europe.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Real
  • Opportunity
  • Option

• Regardless of zip code, talent and IQ are evenly distributed, so we need to make sure that opportunity is evenly distributed, too.

  

  Laurene Powell Jobs
  • Opportunity

• We're all conditioned to work hard, and it's not just an Asian thing: it's an Asian American thing. You maximize the little opportunity you have, and I've made a career.

  

  Ken Jeong
  • Work
  • American
  • Career

• The liberal entertainment industry is a fickle world. So it's about living in the moment, and it's about being clear with it and understanding that this is another opportunity to step up the staircase a little bit and create some newer opportunities and get involved in some other projects, as well as possibly creating your own.

  

  John Pyper-Ferguson
  • Up
  • World
  • Understanding

• Those who are able to afford to live in a neighborhood with 'good schools' will do so, knowing that a good education is the key to good opportunity for their children.

  

  Kristen Soltis Anderson
  • Good
  • Live
  • Children

• In this fast-developing world, particularly in the fast-transforming China market, we really need to take this opportunity and offer a modern interpretation of Scandinavian design which fits people's demands perfectly.

  

  Li Shufu
  • People
  • World
  • Design

• 'Agent Mom' is a perfect opportunity for me to do what I love... develop characters, act and take incredible stories to my fans. So yes, I can absolutely see myself cast as 'Agent Mom.'

  

  Alaina Huffman
  • Opportunity
  • Perfect
  • Mom

• I would hope this experience would help me if that NFL opportunity were to arise. But I also know that it's a totally different league. There's a lot more to it.

  

  John Elway
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Help

• I got to do the Rose Bowl Parade - which is the largest parade in America - with a float. That was a fun opportunity.

  

  Cassandra Peterson
  • America
  • Fun
  • Float

• The trouble with most of us is that we keep our eyes closed to opportunities that thrust themselves at us; and rare is the man who searches for his opportunity or sees one even when he stumbles over it.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Men
  • Eyes
  • Eye

• Much of the day I have busied myself making notes on the small parts in Shakespeare, often nameless, which are rewarding to the actor if only he'll not dismiss them as beneath his dignity. If I can work it up into a talk I might call it, 'Only a cough and a spit ' -the phrase so often used by actors to explain away a lack of opportunity.

  

  Alec Guinness
  • Up
  • Work
  • Small

• I loved the opportunity to play for the Yankees, too.

  

  Bert Campaneris
  • Opportunity

• You can be one inch from the national team and the opportunity to make so much money and a life out of it. That's why people hang on so long.

  

  Christen Press
  • People
  • Life
  • Long

• The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers.

  

  Walter Chrysler
  • Opportunity
  • Reason
  • Knocks

• When I got a call to do the voice of Johnny in an episode of 'American Dad' titled 'I Can't Stan You,' it was a great opportunity to be a part of a really funny cutting-edge show on television. I really got into the character, and I was able to do some improvisation, which allowed me to mix in part of my personality into the script.

  

  Paul Butcher
  • Great
  • Character
  • American

• We finally have another opportunity with the Cardinals. We have a shot. You only get a few chances like this in your career.

  

  Craig Biggio
  • Career
  • Chances
  • Shot

• It sounds very simple, but the truth is most people don't give themselves the opportunity to do what they really want to do, because they feel trapped by their circumstances. But it's critical to trust your heart... it's personally taken me 20 years to get there myself.

  

  Bridget Everett
  • Heart
  • Circumstances
  • Sounds

• As a little girl in Arizona, none of the women in my family had a cultural connection with Girl Scouts, but the opportunity resonated with my mother as a platform that would allow me to excel in school.

  

  Anna Maria Chavez
  • Women
  • Family
  • School

• It was just crazy opportunity to see that whole world and the competitions that we had in the film, like Long Beach, it was just crazy and so much fun. I felt like I lived all those moments in the movie.

  

  John Robinson
  • World
  • Long
  • Movie

• Part of the challenge of being an entrepreneur, if you're going for a really huge opportunity, is trying to find problems that aren't quite on the radar yet and try to solve those

  

  Sean Parker
  • Trying
  • Problem
  • Challenges

• I cannot let this opportunity pass without placing on record how much I have enjoyed my cricket with Kent.

  

  Frank Woolley
  • Opportunity

• I'm part of a party that I think values making sure that everyone in this country has an opportunity to succeed. That's why I'm a Democrat.

  

  Jim Matheson
  • Country
  • Why
  • Party

• So one thing that I want to do is to make people realize that astronauts in general are very normal people. They are down to Earth, so to speak. I know it sounds contradictive, but we are very normal people. We are very normal people with a fantastic privilege and opportunity to do something that is extraordinary.

  

  Luca Parmitano
  • People
  • Earth
  • Opportunity

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