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

19.

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

20.

?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

21.

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

22.

If you want to stand out, don't be different, be outstanding.

West, Meredith

23.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

24.

We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go.

Rohn, Jim

25.

It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

26.

He who stays in the valley will never see over the hill.

27.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Keller, Helen

28.

People who take risks are the people you'll lose against.

Sculley, John

29.

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

Ali, Muhammad

30.

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

31.

To achieve anything in this game, you must be prepared to dabbled on the boundary of disaster.

Moss, Stirling

32.

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.

33.

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Joaquin Setanti

34.

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

35.

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

Jong, Erica

36.

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

37.

Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.

Feather, William

38.

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.

John F. Kennedy

39.

You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.

Brown, Les

40.

Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.

Ovid

41.

If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.

Koestler, Arthur

42.

It is true that when we take chances, we stand to lose. But it is also true that we will never win anything if we never even enter the game. Lucky people are aware of the possibility of losing, and indeed they may lose often. But since the chances they take are small, the losses tend to be small. By being willing to accept small losses, they put themselves in position to make large gains.

Gunther, Max

43.

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.

44.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

45.

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

46.

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

Getty, J. Paul

47.

It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

Hammarskjold, Dag

48.

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

Katherine Mansfield

49.

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.

Ash, Roy

50.

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.