Best Opportunist Quotes

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.

To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.

Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

A lot of other bands have tried to go out there and say we’ve got views on this and views on that. But some of it I’ve found opportunist. Duran Duran has always been honest about everything. We’ve always laid everything out.

The manufacturer who finds himself up the creek is the short-sighted opportunist who siphons off all his advertising dollars for short-term promotions.

We must walk rapidly but not run. We must not be opportunists, nor allow our enthusiasms to make us lose the vision of concrete reality.

No rising hope on the political scene who offered his services to Labour when I happened to be its leader can be dismissed as an opportunist.

It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

Criminals are opportunists. If you’ve got a booming market, they’re going to get away with more fraud.

You can only give your heart away once, after that, everything else will chase your first love

There`s one way of looking at the Trump phenomenon that he`s essentially a Doofus or he is an opportunist.

I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

I’ve always been called a professional opportunist, and in the future I’m open to anything. We’ve spent a lot of time offshore, looking at opportunities in real estate outside the United States.

President George W. Bush won reelection in 2004 largely because he was seen as comfortable in his own skin, while rival John Kerry was viewed as a flip-flopping opportunist.

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

America is another name for opportunity.

Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.

Somebody who sticks to his guns can be called a stubborn person or a principled person, it depends on whether you like his ideas or not. You can call somebody whose ideas you don’t like an ideologist or a person of ideas. You can call somebody whose actions you don’t like a pragmatist if you like them, or an opportunist if you don’t.

I think everyone is an opportunist if they have an opportunity.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

His enemies said he [Robert Kennedy] was consumed with selfish ambition, a ruthless opportunist exploiting his brother’s legend. But he was too passionate and too vulnerable ever to be the cool and confident operator his brother was.

The technological landscape of the present day has enfranchised its own electorates – the inhabitants of the marketing zones in the consumer society, television audiences and news magazine readerships, who vote with money at the cash counter rather than with ballot paper at the polling boot. These huge and passive electorates are wide open to any opportunist using the psychological weaponry of fear and anxiety, elements that are carefully blanched out of the world of domestic products and consumer software.

They were fast-moving opportunists encased in cynicism and proud of it.

The opportunist thinks of me and today. The statesman thinks of us and tomorrow.

Wish you would learn to love people and use things and not the other way around

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.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil,… that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it’s not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Throw em a bone and they want a steak.

There are four types of men in the world: lovers, opportunists, lookers-on, and imbeciles. The happiest are the imbeciles.

They crave attention though, they always saying show me sombut girl you aint the only one that’s tryna be the only one

He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human beings. He said that dogs were not loyal but servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors, that peacocks were heralds of death, that macaws were simply decorative annoyances, that rabbits fomented greed, that monkeys carried the fever of lust, and that roosters were damned because they had been complicit in the three denials of Christ.