Risks Quotes

I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.

To make something really great and different and interesting means taking risks and following these ideas in your head.

You have to take calculated risks in life.

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

You can't run a business without taking risks. The brave may not live forever - but the cautious do not live at all!

The thing about taking risks is, if it’s really a risk, you really can fail. It’s only a pretend risk if you really can’t fail.

If you don't take risks, you'll have a wasted soul.

Everything is sweetened by risk.

Everyone pretends to be 'free thinkers', but few individuals pass the line into expressive territories that may be detrimental to their own social well-being.

The global financial crisis - missed by most analysts - shows that most forecasters are poor at pricing in economic/financial risks, let alone geopolitical ones.

The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.

You do not have to be superhuman to do what you believe in.

Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into urban warfare.

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.

Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks.

A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.

To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness.

I love the challenge.

I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing publishers. They don't seem to want to take too many risks with living people.

Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor.

Maybe you will be afraid and maybe you will fail, but the courage to take risks in any part of your life is, I feel, a very worthwhile way to live.

Taking risks in older age is more courageous because you have more to lose. When you have nothing, you have nothing to lose.

You can't run a without taking risks.

Games are all about taking risks.

Like it or not taking risks, by a total commitment to the mountain and the vagaries of the weather, is essential for the greater satisfaction to be derived from mountaineering.

I am the opposite of boring, but I'm a little reckless, and I'm not against taking risks, and I think I'm always down for an adventure.

The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

One never finds anything perfectly pure and ... exempt from danger.

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.

It is so tempting to try the most difficult thing possible.

What isn't tried won't work.

What is necessary is never a risk.

Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.

It is the business of the future to be dangerous.

I just do whatever it is that I believe I should do, regardless of the risks to my life.

The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.

In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.

I've always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks.

The idea of an entrepreneur is really thinking out of the box and taking risks and stepping up to major challenges.

Taking risks, breaking the rules, and being a maverick have always been important but today they are more crucial than ever.

I'm an adventurer. I believe in being bold and brave - and taking risks. Even if I'm afraid of something, I'll still have a go at it.

Fortunate are those who take the first steps.

Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study.

I think most astronauts are not risk takers. We take calculated risks for something that we think is worthwhile.

Only those who never step, never stumble.

Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.