Peter Drucker Quotes

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.

Opportunity never knocks. It hangs thick in the air all around you. You breathe it unthinking, and dissipate it with your sighs.

Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.

Opportunity is the great bawd.

The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.

When you have the opportunity to do something, you have to jump on it.

Successful entrepreneurs don't wait for the perfect moment - they create it

Success is about taking advantage of opportunity.

Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.

Take advantage of every opportunity; where there is none, make it for yourself.

[When] opportunities present themselves, I take them. It's just how I roll!

I create opportunities.

Opportunity comes to the prepared mind.

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

The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity, an opportunity to be polite, an opportunity to be manly, an opportunity to be honest, an opportunity to make friends.

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 prepare yourself at every point as well as you can, with whatever means you may have, however meager they may seem, you will be able to grasp opportunity for broader experience when it appears. Without preparation you cannot do it.

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. I have several stands around here.

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.

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.

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

I'm going to capitalize on everything I can.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises

Anytime is a good time to start a company.