"If you spot a market where the only choices are at either one end or the other - high fidelity or high convenience - there's probably a big opportunity at the other end. That was the opening for Federal Express, for instance. When it started, there was only one mail service in America - the US Postal Service, which was high convenience. Fred Smith created a high-fidelity mail service."

-- Kevin Maney

#Opportunity Quotes #America Quotes #Choices Quotes

“The United States, which has been called the home of the persecuted and the dispossessed, has been since its founding an asylum for emotional orphans. For over three hundred years, refugees from political oppression, religious persecution, famine, poverty, and a rigid class system which limited educational and economic opportunities have been leaving their native villages and cities and coming to the United States in search of freedom and a better life.”
“It's really important for me to look good before a race. I definitely think if I feel I look good, it makes me feel more confident.”
“Drive will take you much farther than talent ever could.”
“Before forty, you think that exhaustion is something like a long-lasting hangover. But at forty you learn all about it. Even your passions exhaust you.”
“It sounds mercenary and it smacks of rats leaving the sinking ship. But get real, when everyone is bailing out, you don't want to be the last man standing.”

Source : Robbie Fowler (2009). “Fowler: My Autobiography”, p.337, Pan Macmillan
“The new illiteracy is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about not knowing how to read the world...”
“The American press is, and always has been, a booster press, its editorial pages characteristically advancing the same arguments as the paid advertising copy.”
“The good tidings which the historian of the past brings with throbbing heart may be lost in a void the very moment he opens his mouth.”

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