Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Quotes

Opportunity does not always knock twice. You have to make some of your own opportunities and you have to go in and grab those.

If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.

The world seems to belong to those who reach out and grab it with both hands. It belongs to those who do something rather than just wish and hope and plan and pray, and intend to do something someday, when everything is just right.

If you sit by the wayside waiting for Success, your knees will be too stiff to follow her when she passes.

It is foolish to wait for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out.

The only time you have no opportunities is when you decide to stop taking them.

Often people think opportunity is a matter of luck. I believe opportunities are all around us. Some seize it. Others stand and let it pass by.

I believe in destiny. But I also believe that you can’t just sit back and let destiny happen. A lot of times, an opportunity might fall into your lap, but you have to be ready for that opportunity. You can’t sit there waiting on it. A lot of times you are going to have to get out there and make it happen.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

Those who speak up, those who use their connections, are more likely to succeed than those who sit and wait.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.

I would say if you do have ambitions, don't just wait around. Go out and make yourself as well-qualified as possible so you can take that rare opportunity when it comes along.

Life just doesn't hand you things. You have to get out there and make things happen. that's the exciting part.

Nothing comes sailing by itself.

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.

The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it.

Every time I got opportunities, I did something with it.

I try to seize every opportunity I can.

If you sit around and wait for things to happen, they're not going to happen the way you want.

Sitting on my butt waiting on opportunities won't do me any good.

I just have to make sure that, whenever an opportunity arises, I keep taking them.