Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

The hastening of any undertaking begets error, from which great losses are wont to come.

I'd decided to take the risk, and either I'd succeed or else.

Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure.

If we didn't do the tour, it would have been disastrous.

If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure.

Success will be accepted in due course. Whereas should we fail, this will be regarded as the mad venture of a fool.

With risk, sometimes you have tremendous success, sometimes not so much.

We got very lucky. We were successful, but if we weren't, I don't know what I would have done.

In football, there are no guarantees.

If you compromise, and then you succeed, that's another kind of feeling. But if you compromise and fail, it's two failures at least.

Sometimes, even the very best course of action fails.

Rashness is oftener the resort of cowardice than of courage.

I used to write things out beforehand. But sometimes it backfires.

Some you win some you lose.

You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.

I wish you well and I hope it will be a huge hit, because that would be very good for me. And if, God forbid, it's a terrible flop, well that would be very good for me.

The way you can be careful of the catastrophe that success can bring is by paying attention to something else that comes along with success - responsibility.

You can't always expect to work with a director who guarantees success.

Entrepreneurs go through real problems and come up with real solutions. It's not fake. You can do all the right things and still lose. You can do all the wrong things and still will.

Sometimes you succeed and sometimes you don't.

Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.

You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.

Temerity is not always successful.

We know there is no such thing as freedom without the risk of failure.