What does opportunity mean to you?

At Inquentia we passionately identify, explore and develop opportunities powering the future of our clients’ teams, brands and businesses.

For us opportunity means a chance to grow, change, learn new things and to do things better than before – as individuals and team. It also means exploring earlier unknown territories to identify potential improvement and growth areas for your brand and business.

Opportunities however mean little if you don’t have the time to identify the most attractive possibilities at hand, evaluate your options, make the hard choices necessary to place your bets right and then develop those opportunities into something that makes a real difference to your business. Here we can help.

As a start, we have picked some inspirational quotes from different eras and parts of the world to help get your mind on the journey. What does opportunity mean to you?

-“Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.”
(Niccolo Machiavelli)

 

-“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
(Winston Churchill)

 

-“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
(Thomas A. Edison)

 

-“Ability is nothing without opportunity.”
(Napoleon Bonaparte)

 

-“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”
(Henry Ford)

 

-“You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.”
(Rahm Emanuel)

 

-“Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.”
(Mwai Kibaki)

 

-“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)

 

-“I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that.”
(Gillian Anderson)

 

-“One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”
(Benjamin Disraeli)

 

-“The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people’s opinions.”
(Paulo Coelho)

 

-“Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.”
(H. Jackson Brown, Jr.)

More inspirational quotes about opportunity at BrainyQuotes.com

About Inquentia

We identify, explore and develop opportunities for growth and renewal, powering the future of our clients’ teams, brands and businesses. Always from a market and customer perspective. In the process we help create time for reflection, train, guide, coach and involve our clients’ teams to utilize their skills and develop their capabilities, resulting in ownership and faster implementation.