Some articles on opportunity:
... A business opportunity is a corporate opportunity if the corporation is financially able to undertake the opportunity, the opportunity is within the corporation's line of business, and ... Court of Chancery has stated, "An opportunity is within a corporation's line of business ... A corporation has an interest or expectancy in a business opportunity if the opportunity would further an established business policy of the corporation ...
... Other Advantages Provides an opportunity to understand and assess what the participant intended to do through his or her actions Gives participants ...
... The corporate opportunity doctrine does not apply to all fiduciaries of a corporation rather, it is limited to directors, officers, and controlling shareholders ... The corporate opportunity doctrine only applies if the opportunity was not disclosed to the corporation ... If the opportunity was disclosed to the board of directors and the board declined to take the opportunity for the corporation, the fiduciary may take the opportunity for him- or herself ...
Famous quotes containing the word opportunity:
“... the next war will be a war in which people not armies will suffer, and our boasted, hard-earned civilization will do us no good. Cannot the women rise to this great opportunity and work now, and not have the double horror, if another war comes, of losing their loved ones, and knowing that they lifted no finger when they might have worked hard?”
—Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962)
“Never miss an opportunity to allow a child to do something she can and wants to on her own. Sometimes we’re in too much of a rush—and she might spill something, or do it wrong. But whenever possible she needs to learn, error by error, lesson by lesson, to do better. And the more she is able to learn by herself the more she gets the message that she’s a kid who can.”
—Polly Berrien Berends (20th century)
“Liberty requires opportunity to make a living—a living decent according to the standard of the time, a living which gives a man not only enough to live by, but something to live for.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)