Decisions & risk

Fortune favours the bold

People who are brave and take risks are more likely to succeed.

Examples

  • I sent my design to the director myself – fortune favours the bold, after all.
  • "Should I apply for the senior role?" "Go for it – fortune favours the bold."

How to use it

A proverb. In American English: fortune favors the bold.

Where it comes from

From a Latin proverb, found in Roman writers such as Terence and Virgil.