Quotes About Opportunism

Whatever the defense gives us, we're going to take it.

The Vulture. Of all the creatures in the jungle, he has it the easiest. The hard work of others becomes his work; their failure to survive becomes his nourishment. Keep an eye on the Vulture - while you are hard at work, he is circling above. Do not fight him, join him.

Remember: When searching for suckers, always look for the dissatisfied, the unhappy, the insecure. Such people are riddled with weaknesses and have needs that you can fill. Their neediness is the groove in which you place your thumbnail and turn them at will.

Second, learn to take advantage of other people's work to further your own cause. Time is precious and life is short. If you try to do it all on your own, you run yourself ragged, waste energy, and burn yourself out. It is far better to conserve your forces, pounce on the work others have done, and find a way to make it your own.

If you can get other people to dig their own graves, why sweat yourself? Pickpockets work this to perfection. The key to picking a pocket is knowing which pocket contains the wallet. Experienced pickpockets often ply their trade in train stations and other places where there is a clearly marked sign reading BEWARE OF PICKPOCKETS. Passersby seeing the sign invariably feel for their wallet to make sure it is still there. For the watching pickpockets, this is like shooting fish in a barrel.

You have to trim your sails to take advantage of how the wind is blowing. Think coolly, and you make it back to shore. Get your neck hot, and you'll drown.

Those who strive are often watched by others who will take advantage of their defeat to benefit themselves.

Ah, reality TV: where opportunists delight in exposing opportunism! It's kind of like the indie music scene.

Everyone given the right opportunity will behave badly.

Oh, in Hong Kong the millionaires had scouts all through the country. All over China. It was just like the Brooklyn Dodgers' baseball team looking for ballplayers. As soon as a beautiful girl was located in any town or village their agents bought her and she was shipped in and trained and groomed and cared for.

he demonstrated a flexibility of principle that verged on opportunism.

Every sentient creature on this earth, when it falls into want, poverty and misfortune, usually cleaves to his own. Because it's easier to survive the bad times in a group, helping one another. But you, humans, you just wait for a chance to make money from other people's mishaps.

This is the western world; if somebody can make a buck, they're going to try to do it.

I've learned very quickly to fall asleep wherever I can. I sleep in the car from event to event or show to show sometimes.

I learned to get what I wanted through any means necessary, and sometimes that means you have to get your hands dirty.

I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book 'Shock Doctrine.' We make money on disaster.

Politicians will only exploit you for nothing.

Russians had interpreted capitalism to mean: "Steal what you can sell.

Like foxes to a dustbin,

Rockefeller had positioned himself exactly where he wished to be—poised to profit from either surplus or scarcity and all but immune to the vagaries of the marketplace.

Kind of guy who'd sell out his own mother to get ahead, that's for sure. Maybe he did.

Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.

Visionary companies make some of their best moves by experimentation, trial and error, opportunism, and—quite literally—accident. What looks in retrospect like brilliant foresight and preplanning was often the result of "Let's just try a lot of stuff and keep what works.

It's a dog eat dog world and I'm wearing milk bone underwear.