“Luck is when opportunity meets preparation.”
Denzel Washington (1954) actor, screenwriter, director, producer
“I believe luck is preparation meeting opportunity. If you hadn’t been prepared when the opportunity came along, you wouldn’t have been lucky.”
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“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
Seneca the Younger (-4–65 BC) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist
Has been attributed to Seneca since the 1990s (eg. Gregory K. Ericksen, (1999), Women entrepreneurs only: 12 women entrepreneurs tell the stories of their success, page ix.). Other books ascribe the saying to either Darrell K. Royal (former American football player, born 1924) or Elmer G. Letterman (Insurance salesman and writer, 1897-1982). However, it is unlikely either man originated the saying. A version that reads "He is lucky who realizes that luck is the point where preparation meets opportunity" can be found (unattributed) in the 1912 The Youth's Companion: Volume 86. The quote might be a distortion of the following passage by Seneca (who makes no mention of "luck" and is in fact quoting his friend Demetrius the Cynic):<blockquote>"The best wrestler," he would say, "is not he who has learned thoroughly all the tricks and twists of the art, which are seldom met with in actual wrestling, but he who has well and carefully trained himself in one or two of them, and watches keenly for an opportunity of practising them." — Seneca, On Benefits, vii. 1 http://thriceholy.net/Texts/Benefits4.html</blockquote> <br class="br">Disputed
“And be prepared. Luck is truly where preparation meets opportunity.”
Randy Pausch book The Last Lecture
The Last Lecture (2007)
“Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.”
Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist
“There's no such thing as luck. Luck is where preparation meets opportunity.”
Amy Hempel (1951) Short story writer
“Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.”
Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker
See You at the Top (2000)
Luis Miguel (1970) Puerto Rican singer; music producer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aipyRne6dso
Interview in Mexico, 1995
Jane Seymour (1951) English-American actress
On meeting the challenges that life brings in “Interview: Jane Seymour on finding love again at 64” https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/film-and-tv/interview-jane-seymour-on-finding-love-again-at-64-1-3911978 in The Scotsman (2015 Oct 10)
“When we began, we had no opportunities; we prepared in silence and created our own opportunity.”
Diego Rivera (1886–1957) Mexican painter, muralist, Communist
On making your own artistic opportunities in the book Conversations with Diego Rivera: The Monster in His Labyrinth https://books.google.com/books?id=KpZRDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq