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• The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip.

  Paulo Coelho

  Mistake, Warrior, Two

  "Quotes That Help You Survive". Book by Harpreet Kaur Kapoor, 2006.

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• The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Leadership, Courage, Inspiration

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• Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

  Zig Ziglar

  Loyalty, Business, Educational

  "Smarter Branding Without Breaking the Bank: Five Proven Marketing Strategies You Can Use Right Now to Build Your Business at Little Or No Cost". Book by Brenda Bence (p. 91), November 7, 2011.

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• Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

  Henry J. Kaiser

  Inspirational, Motivational, Clothes

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Mistake, Perfect

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.594, Simon and Schuster

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• If you want to succeed, you must make your own opportunities as you go.

  John Bartholomew Gough

  Success, Want, Succeed

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• Social media provides us the opportunity to think before we 'speak', giving us a better shot at reasoned dialog. So it's not a huge surprise to me that not only can real communication happen, but real relationships can blossom.

  Paul Biedermann

  Real, Communication, Thinking

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• Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.

  Nelson Rockefeller

  Motivational, Fear, Failure

  Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (1968). “Unity, Freedom & Peace: A Blueprint for Tomorrow”

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• Ability is of little account without opportunity.

  Lucille Ball

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• As the opportunity grows for unlimited growth and progress, the chances of failure increase. There is no such thing as a program that will provide security and growth and progress with no risk . . . even within the church. As freedom for unrestricted development is enhanced, the possibilities for failure are also increased. The risk factor is great.

  Dean L. Larsen

  Failure, Risk, Growth

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• While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.

  Publilius Syrus

  Attitude, Thinking, Missing

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave: From the Latin". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 185, 1856.

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• France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world ... that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.

  Francois Mitterrand

  History, Rehabilitation, France

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• Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

  Jane Austen

  Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

  Emma ch. 30 (1816)

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• The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of the weak.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Excuse, Weak

  Orison Swett Marden (2006). “Hour of Opportunity”, p.24, Buy Direct (Audio Included)

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• If you want to succeed in the world must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the roadside until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

  John Bartholomew Gough

  Inspirational, Motivation, Men

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• It is no disgrace to start all over; it is usually an opportunity.

  George Madison Adams

  Inspirational, Hard Work, Students

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• What is opportunity to the man who cant use it?

  George Eliot

  Men, Use, He Man

  George Eliot (2016). “The Sad Fortunes Of The Reverend Amos Barton”, p.56, George Eliot

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• As you seek new opportunity, keep in mind that the sun does not usually reappear on the horizon where last seen.

  Robert Breault

  Mind, Doe, Horizon

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• In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that offer.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Creating, Chance, Affair

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• Make hay while the sun shines.

  John Heywood

  Work, Shining, Hay

  John Heywood, Rudolph E. Habenicht (1963). “A Dialogue of Proverbs: Edited, with Introd., Commentary, and Indexes. by Rudolph E. Habenicht”

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• Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.

  Alexei Sayle

  Dog, Bones, Blind

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• Holding occasion by the hand, Not over nice 'twixt weed and flower, Waiving what none can understand, I make mine hour.

  John Vance Cheney

  Weed, Nice, Flower

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• If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Top Management, Wings

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• Manage through the uncertainties. Practice appropriate actions and participate in healthy choices. Value and celebrate the loyalty of the individuals around you: celebrate their competencies and successes, as well as your own. Build up your circle and reinforce it at every opportunity.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Loyalty, Practice, Circles

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• Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Absence, Wells, Absent

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