Last year took my family to a breakfast buffet told my 5yr that he had to try a bit of everything the first plate. Second plate he goes “dad can i just get bacon on this time?” I responded with “yeah, aren’t buffet great?”

He comes back with a loaded plate of only bacon and polished off the plate

Sometimes the Bold gets shot. And that doesn't end up in the annals of History so much. So I think that that famous phrase that you have written suffers from a kind of confirmation bias. You have to be bold and lucky and that doesn't happen all that often. Napoleon was bald but he was also lucky and ditto for Patton and many others