Quotes About Opportunism

I can excel in any situation, and like I've said, I'm not pro-WWE or anti-ECW - I'm pro-Edge. I don't care about promotions; I care about myself, plain and simple.

Those people are unabashedly ruthless as far as money is concerned.

When you have a billion dollar show, there's a few people that have their hands out.

The Italian Fascist Party, having discovered that in its first identity as a Left-nationalist movement the space it coveted was already occupied by the Left, underwent the necessary transformations to become a local power in the Po Valley. The Nazi Party broadened its appeal after 1928 to court farmers desperate over going broke and losing their farms. Both Mussolini and Hitler could perceive the space available, and were willing to trim their movements to fit.

Men may plan, they may dream and struggle, but the buzzard has only to wait, for all things come to him in the end.

As every cockroach knows, thriving on poisons is the secret of success.

If your opportunity comes and you are not prepared for it, it will only make you look foolish.

Liverpool is no different to any other city in the country for footballers. If you are famous and people know you have money, there will always be someone who wants to make a name for themselves.

In this administration, a place can be found for every bad man.

You see, I'm not above helping an unfortunate soul find new purpose in life…so long as it benefits me

You cannot avoid the interplay of politics within an orthodox religion. The power struggle permeates the training, education and disciplining of the orthodox community. Because of this pressure, the leaders of such a community inevitably much face that ultimate internal question: to succumb to complete opportunism as the price of maintaining their rule, or risk sacrificing themselves for the sake of the orthodox ethic.

You cannot avoid the interplay of politics within an orthodox religion. This power struggle permeates the training, educating and disciplining of the orthodox community. Because of this pressure, the leaders of such a community inevitably must face that ultimate internal question: to succumb to complete opportunism as the price of maintaining their rule, or risk sacrificing themselves for the sake of the orthodox ethic.

Win any way you can as long as you can get away with it.

Arlen Specter left the GOP because it is a lot easier to win in Pennsylvania as a Democrat than as a Republican. It is that simple. For folks on the Right to brush this off as some sort of 'good purge' is extremely naive.

Psychopaths view any social exchange as a 'feeding opportunity,' a contest or a test of wills in which there can be only one winner. Their motives are to manipulate and take, ruthlessly and without remorse.

for many people conversion is simply a matter of aligning their religious life with that of their family, friends, and neighbors who already have joined—thus creating a self-sustaining network of growth. Finally, for many people of privilege and ambition, their abandonment of paganism was a matter of opportunism—many people professed Christianity or were discreet about their paganism in order to gain social and political advantages.

As for me, I'll do what I do best. I'll lie, cheat, steal, and survive!

A funny thing about adults is they will spend time with people they don't like very much if they think it might benefit them.

Mr. Renfield didn't like the Abernathys, exactly, but a funny thing about adults is that they will spend time with people they don't like very much if they think it might benefit them.

You take what you can get, I reckon. You take what you can get.

It was about getting what he wanted, and if he had to do business with an evil person like Mugabe, then so be it, as long as he got his part off the deal.

A self-seeker attracts merely opportunity-seekers & blood-suckers around oneself and they arrive often in big numbers and appear also under the disguise of followers and supporters only.

A sensible person never brags or boasts of having a huge number of fans, friends or followers because a wise knows always that the world is full of just opportunists and self-seekers.

Many players like mfgrs/traders enter into any business not by looking into its long-term growth potential or probability, but by seeing it as an opportunity to make huge gain or bumper profitability in a short term. This herd mentality is going on since time immemorial and that's what called a stupidity