Jacob K. Javits Quotes

You take on what's right in front of you. You want to do the best you can with the opportunities that you have.

If you feel like it's going to work, do it. If it doesn't, get out as quick as you can.

You can wait forever for perfect conditions or you can make do with what you have.

I was smart enough to go through any door that opened.

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.

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.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

You use whatever lever you have.

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.

My folks were very practical. They were also kind of able to think outside of the box. They were not going to let circumstance paralyze them. They knew sometimes you just had to take some new initiative. I think they passed that on to all of us... If you don't find a way, you make one.

People who make a difference never wait for just the right time. They know that it will never arrive.

You don't have to just do what's planned, you can take what's immediately in front of you and use that.

We'd never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.

Don't wait on perfect conditions for success to happen; just go ahead and do something!

Some people just wait for someone to take them under their wings but they should just find someones wings to grab onto.

. . . when we cannot do the good we would, we must be ready to do the good we can.

If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.

I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand & work with whatever tools you may have.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

I show up ready to play, so I normally try and fit the situation.

We have to learn how to work within the limits that are possible, not what is desirable.

You've got to go out there and do your things. Whatever comes your way, you jump on it, and like anything, that's how you get your experience.

Don't wait. If it's not right, move on.