Du Mu 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.

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

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

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

I always take my opportunities.

I am accustomed to making the most out of my opportunities.

I'm not happy not doing anything. When positive things are rolling in, you've got to take them when you can get them.

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.

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

Life is what you make it: If you snooze, you lose; and if you snore, you lose more.

Ain't no chance if you don't take it.

When there's an opportunity to do more, we must.

I've always had this incredible sense of urgency. I've always had this desire not to let things fester and to really seize the moment, because it's serendipity.

Some people just look at opportunities and say, 'Maybe something better might come along; let's wait and see.' But you don't wait. You just grab it and go after it.

When opportunities arise, you have to seize them.

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

I've taken advantage of a few breaks that came along and moved along with them.

Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matter of course.

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

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

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.

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

Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.