Ron Livingston Quotes

It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.

I know there are no guarantees of winning and the only thing we have is to work on chances. If you want guarantees buy a washing machine.

You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.

Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.

He who hesitates is sometimes saved.

Timing in life is everything.

Whether I fall on my feet or fall on my arse, I dunno. You've got to take those risks.

Timing in life is everything.

My whole life has been about risk and reward.

One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.

Things take a long time, but when it's right things move fast.

If you attempt certain things at the right time, they are easy to accomplish - in fact, they almost get done by themselves. If you undertake them before the time is right, not only will they fail, but they will often become impossible to accomplish even when the time would have been right.

Technology is like the ante in a poker game. It is the price you pay to play the game. But it doesn't mean you are going to win.

On one of my last days at school, the headmaster said I would either end up in prison or become a millionaire. That was quite a startling prediction, but in some respects, he was right on both counts!

Sometimes you have to take a risk if you want great things to happen.

In football, like in life, there are always millimetres which can change things - the course of a goal or of a life.

Sometimes it's about finding the right situation at the right time in this league.

If you think back to the beginning of the label, we knew we had to strike quickly and aggressively and go for the brass ring.

Yeah, I mean, you always work hard, and certainly there's opportunities to do some bold moves, and sometimes they pay off for you and sometimes they don't.

Everything's possible in football.

I went to business school so what they teach you in business school was that success is about positioning yourself to get lucky. It's not just about how hard you work. It is also about a little bit of luck. To position yourself to catch the luck when it comes.

People are going to hire you, or they're not, and there's only so much you can do to hedge your bets.

Patience; this is the greatest business asset. Wait for the right time to make your moves.