Ray Kroc Quotes

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

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

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.

There is never just one thing that leads to success for anyone. I feel it always a combination of passion, dedication, hard work, and being in the right place at the right time.

Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are your ready?'

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

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

Luck is something you find, or you go for it.

Politics is a lot of serendipity. You're in the right place and the right time and you've got the right message, and it either connects for you or, or it doesn't.

Many people may say that luck is important, but I think you create your own luck by working hard to ensure you don't miss opportunities.

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.

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

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.

There is no 'master plan' on the road to the Nobel Prize. It represents a lot of hard work, a passion for that work and... being in the right place at the right time. For me, that place was Caltech.

Nothing comes sailing by itself.

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.

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.

If you wait for the right time or the good times to start a business, you wait all your life.

I'll pat myself on the back and admit I have talent. Beyond that, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time.

It's no good being talented and not being in the right place at the right time.

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

You seldom, if ever, get lucky sitting down.

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