Fran Tarkenton Quotes

The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.

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.

Those who stand at the threshold of life always waiting for the right time to change are like the man who stands at the bank of a river waiting for the water to pass so he can cross on dry land.

There's an entrepreneur right now, scared to death, making excuses, saying, 'It's not the right time just yet.' There's no such thing as a good time. I started an apparel-manufacturing business in the tech-boom years. I mean, come on. Get out of your garage and go take a chance, and start your business.

It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.

The time to begin most things is ten years ago.

If you wait for perfect conditions to seize an opportunity, you'll be waiting till the day you die.

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.

I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

If you happen to be in the right place at the right time, the capitalist system is a beautiful thing.

If you wait until the right time to have a child you'll die childless, and I think film making is very much the same thing. You just have to take the plunge and just start shooting something even if it's bad.

Embrace your fire - even in hard times. A down economy can actually be a great time to start a business.

You will never win if you never begin.

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

Don't compare me to Babe Ruth. God gave me the opportunity and the ability to be here at the right time, at the right moment, just like he gave Babe Ruth when he was playing. I just hope I can keep doing what I've been doing - keep taking care of business.

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.

It is human nature, especially as we get older, to look for stability in our lives. But if you want to be a successful entrepreneur, you have to fight against that somewhat, as starting a business requires movement. You cannot stay still.

Timing has always been a key element in my life. I have been blessed to have been in the right place at the right time.

With writing, timing is everything. Being in the right place at the right time.

My life has been very lucky, but I made some of that luck.

1976, I was all of 18, and when I stepped into the world of business, the capital I had in my hand was 20,000 rupees.

A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.

A lot of it, as it is in any job in life, is being in the right place at the right time.

I think you have to be in the right place at the right time. And understand that and know when it is your time and how you react to it and how you respond to it.

Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.