Motivational Quotes

Risk

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

- Getty, J. Paul

Best Quotes about Risk

Buyers are graded not only on their successes, but also on their failures. Too many hits means the buyer isn't taking enough chances.

Wexner, Leslie

To do an evil act is base. To do a good one without incurring danger, is common enough. But it is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risks everything in doing them.

Plutarch

If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.

Newman, Henry Cardinal

You can't steal second base with your foot on first.

Proverb, American

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

Winfrey, Oprah

Life is like a hand of cards. You have to play the hand you're dealt, you can't win by folding, and sometimes you must take chances in order to win.

Conner, Mike

People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

Lippmann, Walter

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

Kroc, Ray

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Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets. The buck not only stops at their desks, it starts there too.

Kiam, Victor

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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks.

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If you never budge, don't expect a push.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

14.

Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.

Wilcox, Frederick

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If you don't risk anything you risk even more.

Erica Jong

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He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Ali, Muhammad

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We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

Sarton, May

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Risk! Risk Anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those other voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Mansfield, Katherine

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I've run less risk driving my way across country than eating my way across it.

Hines, Duncan

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As the band got more successful, it was increasingly difficult to get people to take a risk with something that might jeopardize their livelihood. [On Genesis]

Gabriel, Peter

21.

The irony is this: If you don't go in, you can't find out.

Stine, Richard

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When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were--to the very last minute--a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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If you are never scared, embarrassed, or hurt, it means you never take chances.

Soul, Julia

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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.

Rohn, Jim

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Remember the turtle -- He never makes any progress till he sticks his neck out.

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I guess what I'm trying to say is, I don't think you can measure life in terms of years. I think longevity doesn't necessarily have anything to do with happiness. I mean happiness comes from facing challenges and going out on a limb and taking risks. If you're not willing to take a risk for something you really care about, you might as well be dead.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

Proust, Marcel

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

Metastasio, Pietro

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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If a mans gonna eat fried chicken, he's gotta get greasy.

35.

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

Lillian Carter

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And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Jong, Erica

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It is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause. Who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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With racing, you never rest on your laurels, and there are no counterfeits.

Krone, Julie

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

Toffler, Alvin

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The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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?How does one become a butterfly? she asked pensively. You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.

Paulus, Trina

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In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.

Danton, Georges

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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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Somebody must take a chance. The monkeys who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in trees making faces at the monkeys who did.

Steffens, Lincoln

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There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

Kennedy, John F.

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What kind of man would live where there is no daring? I don't believe in taking foolish chances but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all.

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out.

Gerstner, Lou

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One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

Gardner, John W.