Musk predicts that his company will land a person on Mars within five years. It was recently chosen by NASA to build the ship that will put astronauts back on the moon. His company SpaceX is the global leader in building and flying rockets and crews. His car company, Tesla, is now worth over a trillion dollars and produces two thirds of all electric cars. Instead of coasting on his success, he invested his money in two incredibly risky startups in industries with high costs, long development timelines, and massive barriers to entry: the automobile and space industries. When Musk was 28 years old he sold his first company (Zip2) for $22 million. He has impacted the world and made a fortune through courageous and brave acts.

Ovid further parodies the phrase at I.608 of his didactic work, Are Amatoria, writing “audentem Forsque Venusque iuvat” or “Venus, like Fortune, favors the bold.”Įlon Musk (who was Time magazine’s 2021 Person of the Year) is the personification of this proverb. The phrase was used in Terence’s 151 BC comedy play Phomio, line 203. Her name was used in various proverbs including, fortis Fortuna adiuvat- Fortune favors the brave. In ancient Roman religion, Fortuna was the goddess of fortune and the personification of luck.

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