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Business Quotations On Opportunity

By Susan Ward, About.com

"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."
– Milton Berle

"The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are."
– John Burroughs

"Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door."
- Chamfort

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work."
– Thomas A. Edison

"We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."
– Lee Iacocca

"To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life."
- Samuel Johnson

“There will come a time when big opportunities will be presented to you, and you’ve got to be in a position to take advantage of them.”
– Sam Walton

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