Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

Others attempt to live cautiously in the safety of established patterns. They do not feel fulfilled, yet they have found a formula not of success (whatever that is), but of avoiding failure. This is the living death -- when security becomes the overwhelming consideration.

Read, Randy

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

If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line.

Nolte, Nick

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

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

Krone, Julie

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

Johnson, Jimmy

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

Proverb, American

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Salazar, Alberto

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Don't be afraid to go out on a limb.That's where the fruit is.

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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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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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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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

Sculley, John

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You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention, and sometime, maybe somebody, will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians.

Roth, David Lee

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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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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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Most successful people are people who take risks--calculated risks--but nevertheless, risks.

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

Churchill, Winston

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Joaquin Setanti

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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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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

James, William

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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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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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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Take calculated risks. This is quite different from being rash.

Patton, George S.

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Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

Virgil

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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down

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

Gerstner, Lou

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

Ovid

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

Erica Jong

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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Lippmann, Walter