Francis Bacon Quotes

I show up ready to play, so I normally try and fit the situation.

Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.

Am I pushy? Yep. Do I like taking 'no' for an answer when 'no' means New Yorkers aren't going to get something they need? No. Do I push back and crack some eggs? Absolutely.

The Governor is not one who opposes swapping horses while crossing a stream. He will change a horse for a mule, a mule for a goat, and a goat for a shoat. If there is a mane or tail to which to cling, Franklin D. Roosevelt will not scorn to take hold so long as the beast is traveling in his direction.

Any window of opportunity is important. If your hands are tied, you should swim with your legs. If your legs are tied, you should try to hold on to the edge of the boat with your teeth. We have to use every option.

If something doesn't go your way, then look for another way. If something's broken, fix it.

We'd never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

You do the best you can with what's thrown at you, then you try again.

It would seem that the ant works its way tentatively, and, observing where it fails, tries another place and succeeds.

To survive, you've got to keep wheedling your way. You can't just sit there and fight against odds when it's not going to work. You have to turn a corner, dig a hole, go through a tunnel - and find a way to keep moving.

Every person who ever had a plan to do anything, and went and did it, or who laid his plan before others, and won their co-operation to do it with him, without going to external authorities to please do the thing for them, was a direct actionist.

A leader has to find opportunities in any environment.

Sometimes you don't get in through the front door. Sometimes you don't get in through the back. Sometimes you got to climb through the window. That doesn't mean the opportunity wasn't there. There's a way; you've just got to find it.

My folks were very practical. They were also kind of able to think outside of the box. They were not going to let circumstance paralyze them. They knew sometimes you just had to take some new initiative. I think they passed that on to all of us... If you don't find a way, you make one.

If the opportunities are a little limited, then you've got to try to find a way to make something happen the best way you can.

Everywhere I have been, I have always found a way to make it happen.

I am always ready for anything.

Where there is a challenge there has to be a response.

I showed that I can not get frustrated, that I could come from behind, that I can trade, if need-be.

Find a way and make it happen: I've always been the type of person who couldn't rest until I found a way to make something happen. If I couldn't go around the rock, I'd find a way to go over it or under it or through it.

I have an open mind and I'm willing to do whatever.

I never thought I didn't have a card to play.

You know you can usually solve almost any problem, or you'll realize you can't, but usually you can solve almost any problem through some sort of trickery one way or another and get the shot to work, but you know when to give up.

Plans get you into things, but you got to work your way out.