Quotes about Risk

It is like a general informing his soldiers that it is better to keep out of battle forever than to risk a single wound. Not so are victories either over enemies or over nature gained. Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf. At any rate, it seems the fittest thing for the empiricist philosopher.

Creativity takes courage

The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence.

We get some of our best results by letting fools Rush in where angels dear to tread

The time for a business man to borrow money, if ever, is when he does not need it.

If you're not willing to risk you cannot grow, and if you cannot grow you cannot become your best, and if you cannot become your best, you cannot be happy.

Domesticated males aren't much use for adventure.

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

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. Always, always, always, always, always do what you are afraid to do. Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.

Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it's a lot easier to launch work that matters.

People must be free to work, to save, to own their own home, to take risks, to invest in each other and, in essence, to control their own lives.

Moral #1: "If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life." Moral #2: Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.