Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Ash, Roy

Best Quotes about Risk

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Aesop

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

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Brown, Les

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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

Joaquin Setanti

10.

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

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

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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

West, Meredith

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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Johnson, Jimmy

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

Moss, Stirling

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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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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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

Allen, Woody

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Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Virgil

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During the first period of a man's life, the danger is not to take the risk.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Danton, Georges

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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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

Sculley, John

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We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.

Burke, James E.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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

Horace

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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

Thackeray, William M.

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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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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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

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

Stine, Richard

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

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I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it. If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. Never be afraid to dare.

Horowitz, Vladimir