Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Kroc, Ray

Best Quotes about 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

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

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive

Kazan, Elia

If you want to launch big ships you have to go where the water is deep.

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

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.

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

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

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

10.

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

11.

If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.

Salazar, Alberto

12.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

West, Meredith

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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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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

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

Horace

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Erica Jong

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

Danton, Georges

23.

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.

Allen, Woody

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

Joaquin Setanti

27.

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Proverb, American

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Be bold. If you are going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.

King, Billie Jean

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You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Gretzky, Wayne

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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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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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If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.

Julia Sorel

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

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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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.

37.

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

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

Jong, Erica

39.

Risk -- If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know how wide it is, he'll jump and six times out of ten he'll make it.

Proverb, Persian

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

Ash, Roy

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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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Some people prefer to keep their foot in a bog so they don't risk falling over.

Shaw, P.K.

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You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

Alda, Alan

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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

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Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

Collier, Robert

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Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.

Waitley, Denis

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

Kroc, Ray

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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

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.

Sher, Barbara