the trick

Leonardo da Vinci [1452-1519], Five Characters in a Comic Scene, c. 1490

"Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else."
- Several sources attribute this to da Vinci; the message rings true, but the language doesn't.

An earlier reference to Leonardo da Vinci on this blog here.