Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Jong, Erica

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

Metastasio, Pietro

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Brown, Les

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

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Aesop

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

11.

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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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

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

Danton, Georges

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The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

Willis, Nathaniel P.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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 don't risk anything you risk even more.

Erica Jong

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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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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

22.

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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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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 stand out, don't be different, be outstanding.

West, Meredith

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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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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

Sarton, May

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

35.

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

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

Patton, George S.

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

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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Nolte, Nick

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Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else?

Noble, Alex

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

Ali, Muhammad

44.

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

Stine, Richard

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Two roads diverge in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Frost, Robert

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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

Burke, James E.

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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