Quotes About Timing

Being smart as a whip includes knowing when not to crack it.

Bobby Fischer, the great chess champion, once said, "Winning in this game is all a matter of understanding how to capitalize on the strengths of each piece and timing their moves just right.

Bear in mind that no matter how small a thing you want to do, plan it ahead of time, think it over and allot a certain time for you to prepare your plans, for a mediocre plan is better than a brilliant unprepared plan that is haphazardly carried out.

The two best times to fish is when it's raining and when it ain't.

Perhaps my number one rule is: Don't try to make a profit on a bad trade, just try to find the best place to get out.

The best way to win is to play well early or late in the game. The middle part tends to take care of itself.

If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.

Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.

The moment you think of a joke is the best moment.

The best comedy, I feel, comes in a drama because it balances each other out.

Virtually always I get my best pictures when everybody thinks the shoot's done.

Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.

The best birthday present I ever got was born 10 minutes before I was.

Someone once I asked my son Cruz, 'When's your birthday?' and he told them, 'It's just after Fashion Week!'

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars.

Don't spend so much time trying to choose the perfect opportunity, that you miss the right opportunity.

If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.

Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.

I'm definitely not getting married. In this business, you're either getting married or they want you to be pregnant. I'm not getting married until I'm forty. If ever.

In our business, the windows of opportunity open and close with dazzling rapidity...I constantly have to remind people to seize the moment.

There is time to go long, time to go short and time to go fishing.

Take every gain without showing remorse about missed profits, because an eel may escape sooner than you think.

Rest assured, for every piece of business the most businesslike thing is to choose the right moment.

To be successful in show business, all you need are 50 good breaks.