David Graham Phillips Quotes

It's being in the right place at the right time and taking advantage of your opportunities.

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

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.

You have to create your own luck. You have to be aware of the opportunities around you and take advantage of them.

Fortune seized at the right moment gives victory.

The early bird catches the worm.

Success is not an accident. When you put yourself in the right place at the right time, then you're likely to be more successful because of how you prepare yourself on a daily basis.

When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself.

Luck can often mean simply taking advantage of a situation at the right moment. It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared.

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.

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

The trick is to be there when it's settled.

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.

I've worked hard, for sure, but like anything, it takes a lot of luck and being in the right place at the right time, and then making the most of the opportunity.

I think a lot of success I have had in the past is I have been able to work points, find the right time to come forward.

Talent is not enough. You need to be in the right place at the right moment.

Let nature take its course and your tools will strike at the right moment.

The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.

I am aware that success is more than a good idea. It is timing too.

Position yourself well enough, and circumstances will do the rest.

It will never be a perfect time, you can only make time perfect.

I was always in the right place at the right time, always willing to take advantage of an opportunity.

Opportunities ... fall in the way of every man who is resolved to take advantage of them.

Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.