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Fortune favors the brave
(redirected from Fortune favors the bold)

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Fortune favors the brave. and Fortune favors the bold.
Prov. You will have good luck if you carry out your plans boldly. (Used to encourage people to have the courage to carry out their plans.) Fortune favors the bold, Bob. Quit your day job and work on your novel full-time. Jill: Let's wait till next year before trying to start our own business. Jane: No. We'll do it this year. Fortune favors the brave.
See also: brave, favor, fortune
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As those doughty Brits demonstrated nearly 70 years ago, fortune favors the bold.
Surviving the Storm by Peter Coy, with Pete Engardio in New York / BusinessWeek
Always remember: fortune favors the bold, but karma favors the unselfish.
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I doubt that computers would be especially well-suited to searching for such objects, given the various complexities involved; some more sophisticated human researcher, however, looking for a diverting way to kill an hour or two--well, fortune favors the bold.
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