佚名/Anonymous
The air we breathe is so freely available that we take it for granted.
Yet without it we could not survive more than a few minutes. For the most part, the same air is available to everyone, and everyone needs it. Some people use the air to sustain them while they sit around and feel sorry for themselves. Others breathe in the air and use the energy it provides to make a magnificent life for themselves.
Opportunity is the same way. It is everywhere. Opportunity is so freely available that we take it for granted. Yet opportunity alone is not enough to create success. Opportunity must be seized and acted upon in order to have value. So many people are so anxious to “get in”on a “ground floor opportunity”, as if the opportunity will do all the work. That's impossible.
Just as you need air to breathe, you need opportunity to succeed. It takes more than just breathing in the fresh air of opportunity, however. You must make use of that opportunity. That's not up to the opportunity. That's up to you. It doesn't matter what “floor”the opportunity is on. What matters is what you do with it.
空氣無處不在，我們自由自在地呼吸，這是再自然不過的事了。然而一旦失去空氣，我們便隻能存活幾分鍾。在大多數情況下，人人都能呼吸空氣，都需要空氣。有些人呼吸空氣隻為碌碌無為地活著，或者在懊悔中蹉跎歲月；有些人則利用它提供的能量為自己創造絢麗多姿的人生。
機會也是如此，它無處不在，我們自認為能理所當然地得到。但是，僅僅擁有機會對於創造成功來說是不夠的。隻有抓住機會，采取行動，才能創造價值。許多人都渴望奪得先機，好像機會能自行創造成功，那是不可能的。
就像需要空氣才能呼吸一樣，你需要機會才能成功。但是，機會遠遠不像呼吸新鮮空氣那麽簡單，你必須利用好它。然而這並不取決於機會本身，而是取決於你。你擁有怎樣的機會並不重要，重要的是，你怎樣把握手中的機會。