Jim Rohn Quotes

Luck is the residue of design.

I've always said you get what you organize for.

The preparations were elaborate and mammoth in scale, and Washington threw himself into the effort, demanding that not an hour be lost.

Leave as little to chance as possible. Preparation is the key to success.

You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation.

Great cooking favors the prepared hands.

Care and diligence bring luck.

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy.

Good luck is a residue of preparation.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

The majority of my work is about preparation.

I try to be as good a director as I possibly can. I try to be prepared, and I hope everyone else is. The preparation, I suppose, means just about everything. Little things mean a lot.

I think backstory is really important to know because I'm all about prep work. I like to do all of my work right away, as soon as I get it. I'm incapable of procrastinating on anything, so I like to do all of the work.

I did everything by the numbers. I had checklists upon checklists. If I wasn't ahead of everybody on my team, I didn't feel I was doing my job.

You can't show up on set and expect it all to come together. You have to have a plan, much like how the director can't just show up and go, well, where should I put the camera? That is gonna determine how it is lit, you should have already been in the room looking at it earlier, pre-lit the room, you know there is a lot of prep that goes into it, so it is the same thing with acting. You can't just show up.

I've always admired people who are over-prepared.

Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.

Remember, it is not about luck. It is about doing the right things the right way.

It's true, spectacular preparation always precedes spectacular performance.

Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's good luck. You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.

It takes a lot of un-spectacular preparation, to get spectacular results