Close, but no...

Today I realised that total success and abject failure are a millimetre apart. This is my explanation for the existence of so many ordinary people/ideas/things. Subconsciously, most people know that in order to achieve great success they must risk catastrophic failure and it is this risk that prevents them from ever being anything other than ordinary. The ordinary folk huddle together and find comfort in knowing they aren't the only normal ones. The special few break free and soar.

If you want to achieve success you have to risk it - stare failure dead in the eye and smile, more often than not your arrogance will be enough to see you through.