Quotes About Opportunist

#1. Wouldn't it be great if all career phonies, faux friends or opportunists could be identified quickly in professional networking circles by wearing signs like "Career Dip", "No Loyalty Card" or "Opportunist Knocks"?

Torry Martin

#2. 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

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Katharine Hepburn

#5. 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

#6. As she took Liam, she whispered to Dragos, "You win all the good Daddy points."
His eyes glinted with wicked sensuality, and his eyelids lowered to conceal it. Ever the opportunist, he murmured, "And what will that get me?"
"If you play your cards right, it might get you lucky later.

Thea Harrison

#7. The mayor was the most dangerous of individuals. He possessed, in equal amounts, unhealthy doses of charm and ambition. He was a driven opportunist.

Marc Fitten

#8. crushes the adventurous, the brave, the sensitive, and encourages the timid, the opportunist and time-serving, the sneak and the bully. It surrounds itself with

Shashi Tharoor

#9. My people are impressing on Tulwar's people the wisdom of surrender and a rapid shift of allegiance. I'm counting on most them being opportunist thugs who'll recognize a good thing when it's offered to them.

Alastair Reynolds

#10. 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

#11. I am an opportunist. When opportunities come, and I see them serving my grander goals in life, I take them.

Evangeline Lilly

#12. 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.

Jack Newfield

#13. An opportunist disguised as a friend can be every bit as dangerous as an outright enemy.

Ransom Riggs

#14. Dear optimist, pessimist, and realist
while you guys were busy arguing about the glass of wine, I drank it! Sincerely, the opportunist!

Lori Greiner

#15. We lose the understanding that death always begets life of some sort, and that life is always an opportunist, persistently standing ready to build something out of the smoldering ashes and raise something up out of the tangled carnage.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#16. It only too often yields to the temptation to become sycophantic, opportunist and lying, like a politician who sees the truth but wants to keep his place in popular favour.

Sigmund Freud

#17. A man who fights you as he does is no better than an opportunist and no worse than a thug.

Kristin Cashore

#18. This sound self-serving, but being interested in everything makes you a more effective opportunist - and that's what an editor has to be, a student of unintended consequences.

Terry McDonell

#19. Evolution is, as an engineer, an opportunist, not a perfectionist.

Stanislaw Lem

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

Stanley Baldwin

#21. A friend who pays allegiance to his fellow friend just because of the favor and benefit he gets from him is no friend but an opportunist.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#22. The world is full of challenges, but with those come opportunity, and I'm an opportunist.

Homaro Cantu

#23. Those who call me an opportunist are following the old rule: If you can't attack the data, attack the person.

Warren Farrell

#24. 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.

Nick Rhodes

#25. 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

#26. An opportunist ventures nothing, believes in nothing and invests in nothing, therefore he ends with nothing.

Nicko Widjaja

#27. Most people are fascinated by what I did as a teenager, but when I look back at my life, I don't think very much about those years. 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

#28. This is a wrong course the Chinese comrades are trying to lead us on to, it is an opportunist road of vacillation and concessions to the Khrushchev traitor group which finds itself in grave difficulties, and is intriguing in order to escape defeat.

Enver Hoxha

#29. 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

#30. I saw an opportunist in banana-cake clothing. Let the record show, I did not roll my eyes. Schooling

Penny Reid

#31. I like to call myself an "equal opportunist," as I love both dogs and cats, but over the last couple years, both Howard and I have become champions for cats. They are so independent and loving and playful and bring such happiness to our lives.

Beth Ostrosky Stern

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. The war had made him into a lone wolf, an introverted arrow that shot silent and solitary to his target for the moment. He'd become an opportunist of sensation and aesthetic.

John Horne Burns

#35. 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

#36. Exceptional performers are masterful opportunists, keenly alert to opportunity!

Brian Tracy

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

William Matthews

#38. They crave attention though, they always saying show me som
but girl you aint the only one that's tryna be the only one

Drake

#39. He taught me who I was, something I would never have known, without his deft Handling of my personality

Tarryn Fisher

#40. He won't be happy until he's banging the next big thing. And while he'd prefer a female, I think he'd fuck anything that moves if he thinks it'll ease his climb to the top. Male, female, or small farm animal.

J. Kenner

#41. The backpackers are back on the bandwagon like this was my comeback season back, back in the day

Drake

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

Octavia Butler

#43. I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise.

Criss Jami