Quotes about Risk

A great deal more failure is the result of an excess of caution than of bold experimentation with new ideas. The frontiers of the Kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory.

The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win

Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.

Poetry was alive and dangerous.

Out of the frying pan into the fire.

But if we listen with our own interests and agendas in mind, if we develop "private interpretations" and idiosyncratic views, we risk shattering that unity, provoking disputes over doubtful matters, and weakening our corporate gospel witness.

life is a great adventure, and the worst of all fears is the fear of living.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

This is one of the innovator's dilemmas: Blindly following the maxim that good managers should keep close to their customers can sometimes be a fatal mistake.

they reached as far upmarket as they could in each new product generation, until their drives packed the capacity to appeal to the value networks above them. It is this upward mobility that makes disruptive technologies so dangerous to established firms—and so attractive to entrants.