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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

It's through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that we've always mapped our path at Dell. There's always an opportunity to make a difference.

Michael Dell

Dell Inc.

No company is smart enough to know what to do with every opportunity it finds, and no company has enough resources to pursue all the opportunities it might execute.

John D. Wolpert

IBM

Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

Richard Branson

Virgin Group

I am going to wait for the next big thing... More

Steve Jobs

Apple

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Orison Swett Marden

Success Magazine

There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand,' meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do.

Soichiro Honda

Honda

Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

Google

Always think outside the box and embrace opportunities that appear, wherever they might be.

Lakshmi Mittal

ArcelorMittal

We are constantly encouraged to spend time exploring new ideas and asking "what if?" questions and we're allowed to pursue the ones we think have the most promise.

Mark Dean

IBM

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Thomas Alva Edison

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 Percy Chrysler

Chrysler

The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

Sun Tzu

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Henry Ford

Ford Motor