Opportunities for “Long Shots”
The 135th Kentucky Derby was run yesterday on a sloppy track, in the cool air, on a cloudy day. It was hardly the best weather for the world’s greatest horse race. As it turned out it was a perfect day for a “Long Shot” to win. Mine that Bird waited for an opening and then doing something that most don’t slipped in through a whole on the inside of the track to became a 50-1 winner of the Kentucky Derby.
The conditions set up the Long Shot win. Just as the current economic conditions are setting up opportunities for long shot wins all around us. I sat in a pitch for a real estate fund – raising ten million to take advantage of “Fire Sales” currently available in the market place.
A colleague sat in a reunion presentation where the dean of the school stated that now was the time not to cower in a hole but to boldly step forth and take advantage of the opportunities that the economy has produced.
I agree with the dean. Now is the time! It is a sloppy track out there right now and right NOW is the time to be bold and make your move. Long shots do pay and usually it is in sloppy conditions.