Quotes About Opportunism

Men of genius are like eagles, they live on what they kill, while men of talents are like crows, they live on what has been killed for them.

The most ingenious men continually pretend to condemn tricking--but this is often done that they may use it more conveniently themselves, when some great occasion or interest offers itself to them.

Lesson number one: Don't underestimate the other guy's greed.

Remember, I am neither a bear nor a bull, I am an agnostic opportunist. I want to make money short- and long-term. I want to find good situations and exploit them.

Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.

If you are opportunist, then you are already one step closer to achieve your target!

The nature of show business is people within the business feel that if someone else fails, they move up a notch.

Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.

I think the world of politics is pretty sleazy.

Theodore Roosevelt offered this bit of Stoic-inspired advice: "Do what you can, with what you've got, where you are.

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

There will always be at least a handful of people unscrupulous enough to take advantage of such a situation—and a handful is all it takes.

Swapping one thing directly for another while trying to get the best deal one can out of the transaction is, ordinarily, how one deals with people one doesn't care about and doesn't expect to see again. What reason is there not to try to take advantage of such a person?

the moral leadership of the Papacy is conditioned by considerations of opportunism and expedience.

This was the beginning of Hitler's new-style diplomacy. His victories in Central Europe were won without the sword – they were won by power politics and opportunism, by bluff, by coercion, by psychological operations and by nerve-war. On each occasion he carefully gauged his potential enemies. He satisfied himself that the western powers would not fight, provided he made each claim sound reasonable enough. The west was weak and unready, and he was not.

I just try to get on anyway that I can, hit, hit-by-pitch, walk, home runs, anything.

Washington honors the Platinum Rule above all: 'Do it unto others before they do it unto you'.

I cannot afford to waste any chance that comes my way.

Crime is stupid, lazy and weak. You can only exploit it and make money out of it.

I have never really planned anything in my life.

To be honest, I never even planned my career in South. I simply went with the flow and took things as they came.

I have never planned in life. For me the medium is not important - what matters is the role.

I don't spend time planning each move in my career.

The code of the road is, if there is anything to eat, eat; if there is a place to sit, sit; if there is a restroom, go.