No Such Thing as Luck

What you call luck is a prepared man meeting a moment he was ready for.

The opportunity was available to everyone. Only he could take it, because only he did the unglamorous work in private — the thousand times he acted when he did not feel like it, long before the moment arrived.

The outsider sees a lucky break. You know the truth, and the cost.

You were never going to get lucky. Luck is for people waiting to be chosen.

You were going to get ready — and ready arrives on its own schedule, built one overridden excuse at a time, in the dark, where no one is clapping.

Stop waiting for “good fortune.”

It’s not going to come. Readiness does — and readiness looks exactly like luck to everyone who did not pay for it.