David Mackay Quotes

I just try to take the best opportunities that I can get.

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.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

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.

Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

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.

It took me years to figure out that you don't fall into a tub of butter, you jump for it.

If there are opportunities, seize them and be prepared for them, and be the best, if that's what it takes. If you have to be extraordinary, then be extraordinary.

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

I believe in following opportunities.

I'm looking to try to do more out there and just taking advantage of the opportunities that I've been given.

Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.

Every time I see a certain room to grow, or a new opportunity to advance further, I go out and take it.

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

I'm the kind of person who doesn't wait for opportunities to fall from the sky.

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.

Success for me means being able to work. I don't look at so much at what I've done as much as I look to what I will do.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

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

I'd rather regret doing something than not doing something.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

I like to dream, but I like to make things happen.

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

Now's the best time you'll ever have in life to get ahead!

Successful people jump at opportunity and take advantage of it.