Quotes About Opportunism

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

Kau sudah pernah melakukan ini? Tentu. Ratusan kali -- yah, setidaknya puluhan kali. Dengan anggota Partai. Ya. Selalu dengan anggota Partai. Dengan anggota Partai Inti? Tidak dengan celeng-celeng itu! Emoh. Tapi, banyak dari mereka yang mau kalau saja ada peluang sekecil apa pun. Mereka tidak sesuci lagaknya.

We mortals are changeable. Alas, I must say more apt to change our minds when right than wrong. Wrong, we are stubborn indeed. Right, we are prone to vacillate and let opportunity escape.

I don't plan stuff. I don't believe in planning. I just believe in doing your best at what you do best at all times and everything else is everything else. Everything else is a plus.

Everyone does what they believe they need to do in order to survive in this business, 'survive' being the operative word.

There was a time when I felt I should do everything that was offered to me, you know, ride the wave.

A speculator is a man who, if he dies at the right time, has a rich widow.

Chance favors the prepared mind. —Louis Pasteur

TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN' begum Dil Afroze was a well-known opportunist who believed, quite literally, in changing with the times. When the Movement seemed to be on the up and up, she would set the time on her wristwatch half an hour ahead to Pakistan Standard Time. When the Occupation regained its grip she would reset it to Indian Standard Time. In the Valley the saying went, 'Begum Dil Afroze's watch isn't really a watch, it's a newspaper. Q 1: What is the moral of the story?

persons who claim mystical powers often enjoy remarkably ambidextrous moralities when presented with opportunities for enrichment.

A number of party... members lack proper discipline, are plagued by individualism, selfishness and opportunism. This gives rise to some individuals' words not matching their deeds, not adhering to party rules and regulations and having no proper mechanisms for disciplining those who make mistakes.

I'm not very good at vacationing or relaxing or planning any of that for myself. So I'm in the habit of piggy-backing off of gigs and deciding to stay an extra day.

Little Libby Day just discovered her angle. Call it survival instinct, or call it what it was: greed.

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.

I think I'm just someone that just tries to get by. I'm kind of - if it was during the Second World War, I'd be a black marketeer, I think.

I've certainly had to bite my tongue on occasion and live to fight another day, so to speak, on certain things. But when you're new and fresh, you come out and think, 'I don't want to screw my chance up, so I'll go along with what everybody else does.'

She's trollin' for a breadwinner and uses a short skirt for bait.

a new biological species, the hit-and-run businessmen, who did not stay in any line of business longer than the span of one deal, who had no payrolls to meet, no overhead to carry, no real estate to own, no equipment to build, whose

When your enemy is in the process of destroying himself, stay out of the way.

one bird, usually the largest, will eventually win—but even the victor may be hurt by the fight. That means a third bird, an undamaged, canny bystander, can move in, opportunistically, and defeat the now-crippled victor. That is not at all a good deal for the first two birds

it's easy to get rich by getting a state asset at a deep discount.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage, and guarantee he'd be dead within the year.

We don't really care about others, except when convenient. Don't believe it?

Most of us live our lives like toads, sitting perfectly still, under a plantain leaf. We are waiting for a fly to come our way. When it comes out darts the tongue. We nab it. That is all. We eat it.