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For the most part, the best opportunities now lie where your competitors have yet to establish themselves, not where they're already entrenched. Microsoft is struggling to adapt to that new reality.
Sep 10, 2025
Once in a while a good opportunity would come along, like the first 'Playhouse 90 ever to air - working in television afforded me my best opportunities. The (film) industry was going through such turmoil at the time - studios didn't know where to go anymore, they were falling apart, television was there. They didn't know what kind of films people wanted. The European films were making a huge impact because those films wanted real people in real situations.
We have no target for the number of medals we hope to win in 2012 - yet. But we want every kid in the country to have the chance to have the best opportunities.
Like other parents in this country, we want to give our children the best opportunities, to shower them with love, to teach them respect and a love for the rich and diverse traditions America has to offer them.
Morandi suggests we are all single in this world, hoping for independent repose. But our best opportunity for a community of excellence depends upon a collection of enlightened individuals.
Some of the best opportunities in the world are the most obvious ones.
Done right, a performance review is one of the best opportunities to encourage and support high performers and constructively improve your middle- and lower-tier workers.
Scientists have stated that embryonic stem cells provide the best opportunity for devising unique treatments of these serious diseases since, unlike adult stem cells, they may be induced to develop into any type of cell.
The labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transform not merely an industrial situation and win an important battle for workers in struggle, but an opportunity to change the government of the day.
I think that the moment we're living in offers the best opportunity we've had in a long time in that a lot of things having to do with identity politics are being talked about in poems. The only problem there is that a lot of the time these are being talked about in confessional modes.
I want to find the best opportunity to become the best in the world.
What I know how to do is nurture and help people discover the best opportunities.
A great opportunity is often hard to be explained clearly; things that can be explained clearly are often not the best opportunities.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.
The golden opportunity you are seeking is within yourself.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.
Opportunities? They are all around us ... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.
Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.
Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem.
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.
Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.
Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come.
Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
I've always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up, leaving more territory, more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there, giving it their best.
Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
We who are born from above testify to the change that God has wrought in our hearts. Perhaps the best time for you to tell someone what has taken place in your life is when that person comes to you and says, 'What has happened to you? I have known you before and after. You are different, Tell me about it.' This is the best opportunity to tell someone about Christ. If they don't see a difference, all the talking in the world is meaningless.
The best thing you can do is follow your dreams
An athletic scholarship shouldn’t be the best opportunity to receive a quality education.
Don't believe you have to travel far and wide to discover opportunities. The best opportunities will always be found in your own back yard, and not half way around the world in someone else's backyard. You have to look for them, however.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
I am now a fundamentalist American; give me time and I will tell you why individualism, laissez-faire and the slightly restrained anarchy of capitalism offer the best opportunities for the development of the human spirit.
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
It's such a stress always trying to get bigger houses and larger cars and better schools. Of course, parents want to give their children the best opportunities in life, but sometimes that can stifle them.
Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
I feel that Im not losing the game for our team. Im trying to give us the best opportunity to win the football game. I did everything I could to lose the Jets game but we won. And the Patriots game, I didnt play well. I think that this year, I just come out and play smart football. I got some good advice the other day (from CBS Sports Dan Dierdorf): Every drive that ends in a kick is a good drive.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
It... is the best opportunity we've had in the last 25 years to bring about a settlement in Northern Ireland, and I think we should leave no stone unturned to achieve that.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.