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John Pomfret

"And then I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to go to China in 1980, which was quite early."

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"The present offers fresh opportunities."

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"God gives absolutely everybody the opportunity to be successful in life."

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"When the boat is waiting for you, when the rows are waiting for you, when the calm sea is waiting for you, when the sun is waiting for you, when everything is ready to help you to move forward, be there or those who wait will go away!"

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"Don't wait for opportunity in front of a closed door-wander until you find the open one."

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"We're constantly presented with opportunity, or the opportunity to create opportunity."

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"The latent abundance of your inner most resources matters less. What matter most is the impact you can make with your inner resources and the distinctive footprints you can leave with what is within you. The excuse not to dare is there for everybody. When you see so many people crowded at the entrance, think of the roofing and if the roofing is too high, think of the next door and if the next door is not penetrable, create a door within the wall."

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"Don't waste time waiting for opportunity to surface, it may never happen that way. Spend time to create one and many more will unfold in series!"

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"If an opportunity comes dressed in trouble's apparel, do not scorn it."

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"Some beautiful opportunities are like birds. They may be there but only till the next second!"

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"Mobile entertainment is a huge opportunity. We are committed to mobile just as much as we are to PCs."

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John Pomfret
"The one indication that I got that I was doing the right job in Bosnia was that at different periods of time all the factions came down very hard on me."

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"I think some of the best reporters are the ones who can really illustrate the differences between societies, at the same time trying to connect the fact that there are a lot of shared values in addition to those differences."

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"The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and wanted to be paid for it."

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"A lot of times when we work overseas we tend to put the experience of someone who lives overseas, a Chinese person or a Korean person or a Bosnian person, within the prism of an American life."

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"When you do a job like this you have to like having cold sweat on your back."

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"One of the problems that we have as American journalists is that we bring the American cultural baggage with us and we plop it down and it follows us around and that's just a fact of life."

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"I was posted to China in the summer of 1988, which was the greatest time ever, I think, to have been in China."

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John Pomfret
"Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively."

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"And then I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to go to China in 1980, which was quite early."

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"Srebrenica was a horrendous war crime and it had to be uncovered."

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