Robert A. Heinlein Quotes

Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.

Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

Luck is the residue of design.

Good luck is a residue of preparation.

Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.

Life is a school of probability

Luck is when opportunity meets preparation.

Human affairs are governed by such a variety of whimsical circumstances, that we should always be prepared to stand the shock of that disappointment which the best concerted measures are constantly subject to.

Good luck is when opportunity meets preparation, while bad luck is when lack of preparation meets reality.

I don't believe in luck. Luck is just preparation meeting the moment of opportunity.

Luck is the residue of good planning.

In my experience, there's no such thing as luck.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

I have yet to be in a game where luck was involved. Well-prepared players make plays. I have yet to be in a game where the most prepared team didn't win.

Luck, if there is such a thing, is either going to favor everyone equally or going to exhibit a preference for the prepared.

I don't believe in luck, I believe in preparation.

I believe that luck is opportunity meeting preparation.

I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question.

So it's probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill.

Fortune is either with you or it's not.

Everybody has to be a little lucky, I think.

Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.

Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.