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Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-Anon.
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Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.
-Anon.
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Opportunity creates desire.
-Danish proverb
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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.
-English Proverb
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Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity.
-Arabic Proverb
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For every man there comes that special moment when he is physically tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing - unique to him and fitted to his talents.
What a tragedy if that moment finds him unprepared or unqualified for the work which would be his finest hour.
-Anon.
widely attributed to Winston Churchill
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The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
-Anon.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
-Proverb
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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.
-Proverb
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The back of one door is the face of another.
-Proverb
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When fortune knocks open the door.
-Proverb
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Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad.
-Proverb
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If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.
-James Allen
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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.
-Bob Anderson
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We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization
-Gauis Petronius Arbiter
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Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation.
-Jane Austen
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
-Francis Bacon
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Opportunity makes a thief.
-Francis Bacon
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Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.
-Bruce Barton
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Opportunities are everywhere. The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employers' reliance on short-term staff. There may be fewer jobs for life, but there are more jobs in a lifetime.
-Lucy Benington
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If oppurtunity doesn't knock, build a door.
-Milton Berle
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Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.
-Richard Branson
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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.
-Gene Brown
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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Books about Opportunity
