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America is another name for opportunity. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You create your opportunities by asking for them. -- Shakti Gawain
I will prepare and some day my chance will come. -- Abraham Lincoln
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity. -- John D. Rockefeller
I think everyone is an opportunist if they have an opportunity. -- Katharine Hepburn
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. -- Joseph Campbell
If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd. -- Edward de Bono
Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. -- Maya Angelou
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations. -- Charles R. Swindoll
I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck. -- Stanley Baldwin
When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity. -- John F. Kennedy
Dear optimist, pessimist, and realist--while you guys were busy arguing about the glass of wine, I drank it! Sincerely, the opportunist! -- Lori Greiner
Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them. -- Orison Swett Marden
It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared. -- Whitney M. Young
The manufacturer who finds himself up the creek is the short-sighted opportunist who siphons off all his advertising dollars for short-term promotions. -- David Ogilvy
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. -- Ralph Washington Sockman
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. -- Michael Foot
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. -- Jim Cramer
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. -- Sam Zell
The man who grasps an opportunity as it is paraded before him, nine times out of ten makes a success, but the man who makes his own opportunities is, barring an accident, a sure-fire success -- Dale Carnegie
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists. -- Ernest Hemingway
Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is. -- Bob Feller
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. -- George McGovern
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. -- A. P. Herbert
I think when people struggle with the problem of trying to understand the art world as an idea, they misunderstand it. They think it's a world of visionaries or opportunists. But it also includes people who want to take part in this cultural exercise but don't have the required stuff, they don't have the ideas or the production. -- Liam Gillick
The opportunist thinks of me and today. The statesman thinks of us and tomorrow. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
If you are opportunist, then you are already one step closer to achieve your target! -- PRIYANSHU JOSHI
The world is full of challenges, but with those come opportunity, and I'm an opportunist. -- Homaro Cantu
An opportunist ventures nothing, believes in nothing and invests in nothing, therefore he ends with nothing. -- Nicko Widjaja
Those who call me an opportunist are following the old rule: If you can't attack the data, attack the person. -- Warren Farrell
A man who fights you as he does is no better than an opportunist and no worse than a thug. -- Kristin Cashore
I am an opportunist. When opportunities come, and I see them serving my grander goals in life, I take them. -- Evangeline Lilly
There`s one way of looking at the Trump phenomenon that he`s essentially a Doofus or he is an opportunist. -- Steve King
I was an opportunist and got away with things because I was very young, but I went to prison and came out and remade my life. -- Frank Abagnale
The fact is I'm an opportunist. I'll take materials around me, materials on my table, and work with them as I'm searching for an idea that works. -- Frank Gehry
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. -- Ron Fournier
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. -- Freeman Dyson

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