Quotes About Opportunism

No; small timers get into it, and ruin it for everyone.

I knew Paris was using me, but I also didn't care; I was using her, too. I mean, I was a blogger who was hanging out with Paris Hilton.

They have seen in his [Senator Stephen A. Douglas's] round, jolly, fruitful face, post offices, land offices, marshalships, and cabinet appointments, chargeships and foreign missions, bursting and sprouting out in wonderful exuberance ready to be laid hold of by their greedy hands. . . . Nobody has ever expected me to be President. In my poor, lean, lank face nobody has ever seen that any cabbages were sprouting out.

It's a dog eat dog world, and Mr. Perfect is a Milk Bone.

I believe businesses don't grow or develop in terms of a blueprint. There is a huge element of opportunism involved.

Never give a sucker an even break.

American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.

What I always liked about 'Sunny' whenever it approached any sort of hot-button issue is that, ultimately, what the characters felt about it could change at any given instant depending on what benefited them the most personally.

I sometimes think of myself as Fortinbras — ha, ha — in the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, who just keeps circling and circling around the action until everything else falls apart, and then strolls in at the end to pick up all the pieces for himself.

When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don't see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy.

He mad no moral judgements. He accepted mankind as he found it, and looked for the profit to be made from its strengths or weaknesses.

There will always be a way getting involved to make profit at everybodys expense.

In the above-captioned case, the motive or original intent of the UNSUB was burglary of cash and/or other valuables. With the unexpected appearance of one of the residents of the house, the crime devolved into a homicide. The motivation was both sexual opportunism and the need to eliminate the only witness.

People will quite often do anything for money. - Jane Marple

I don't make plans, because life is short and unpredictable–much like the weather!

I don't quite have the luxury of cherry-picking - I have to see what comes my way. But I have always been picky.

Wall Street sharks will go where they smell the blood, and you cannot change that.

The biologists have essentially been pushed aside. Al Gore's just an opportunist. The person who is really responsible for this overestimate of global warming is Jim Hansen. He consistently exaggerates all the dangers.

Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.

In a spectacle of cowardice and political opportunism, the politicians support Hitler and pass a new law.

Shlemenko wants to make his name off of Tito Ortiz. He's not the first person ever to do this. People have been trying to use my name ever since I was the champ.

Don't be a hero, young man. There's no percentage in it.

Opportunistic theft and burglary are, historically, rare in American disasters, rare enough that many disaster scholars consider it one of the "myths" of disaster. Some such opportunism happened in Katrina. The first thing worth saying about such theft is who cares if electronics are moving around without benefit of purchase when children's corpses are floating in filthy water and stranded grandmothers are dying of heat and dehydration?

think, Raquel, you'd cut the laugh out of a toddler's throat with a blunt scalpel if you thought you could sell it for cab fare.