Most amusements only mean trying to win another person's money.
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
Then…
When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. - Alexander Graham Bell
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. - Demosthenes
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Alva Edison
And
Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages. - Irene Peter