Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Sculley, John

Best Quotes about Risk

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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

Kroc, Ray

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

There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns.

Pilpay

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

It is easy to be brave when far away from danger.

Aesop

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Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances.

Havlicek, John

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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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

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Salazar, Alberto

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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

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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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

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Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today. Most important, don't listen when the little voice of fear inside you rears its ugly head and says. they all smarter than you out there. They're more talented, they're taller, blonder, prettier, luckier, and they have connections. I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you'll be a person worthy of your own respects.

Simon, Neil

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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The ?sure thing? boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Jong, Erica

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

Brown, Les

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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Rohn, Jim

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With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.

Friedman, Milton

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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

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

Sculley, John

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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.

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

Soul, Julia

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

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

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Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Joaquin Setanti

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Where there is much to risk, there is much to consider.

Platen

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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.