You can wait for opportunities to come to you or you can create your own opportunities. A successful person chooses to create them.

It's very easy when times are bad to sit back, do nothing yourself, and complain about the way things are. It isn't easy to be a leader when momentum is going in the wrong direction. The risk seems too great.

On the contrary, leadership is about creating vision and motivating others to overcome obstacles. Therefore, take advantage of down times to accept the challenge of leadership. Few others will try. Those that do, and succeed, will be called leaders.