All great events hang by a hair. The man of ability takes advantage of everything and neglects nothing that can give him a chance of success; whilst the less able man sometimes loses everything by neglecting a single one of those chances.


Letter to Minister of Foreign Affairs, Passariano (26 September 1797), as quoted in Napoleon as a General (1902) by Maximilian Yorck von Wartenburg, p. 269

Napoleon I of France Quotes

All great events hang by a hair. The man of ability takes advantage of everything and neglects nothing that can give him a chance of success; whilst...

All great events hang by a hair. The man of ability takes advantage of everything and neglects nothing that can give him a chance of success; whilst...

All great events hang by a hair. The man of ability takes advantage of everything and neglects nothing that can give him a chance of success; whilst...

All great events hang by a hair. The man of ability takes advantage of everything and neglects nothing that can give him a chance of success; whilst...