Quotes About Boldness

If you do not take risks for your opinion, you are nothing.

A half-man (or, rather, half-person) is not someone who does not have an opinion, just someone who does not take risks for it.

If you do not take risks for your opinion, you're nothing.

An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion.

from increasing the number of people in the "tails," that small, very small number of risk takers crazy enough to have ideas of their own, those endowed with

If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don't take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing.

is often a good career move for an author.

And when you take risks, insults by half-men (small men, those who don't risk anything) are similar to barks by nonhuman animals: you can't feel insulted by a dog.

If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don't take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing.

those who don't take risks should never be involved in making decisions.

There are some risks we just cannot afford to take. And there are other risks (of the type academics shun) that we cannot afford to not take.

Some blindness to the odds or an obsession with their own positive Black Swan is necessary for entrepreneurs to function. The

when you have a very limited loss you need to get as aggressive, as speculative, and sometimes as "unreasonable" as you can be.

We need people to take (bounded) risks.

We could plan while bearing in mind such limitations. It just takes guts.

the courage to put forth their ideas

He does not mind looking like a fool or, worse, an ignoramus.

anything difficult to say must be shouted from the rooftops.

It is remarkable, that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most perfect quietude to the external regulations of society. The thoughts alone suffice them, without investing itself in the flesh and blood of action.

It is remarkable that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most perfect quietude to the external regulations of society.

It is remarkable, that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most quietude to the external regulations of society. The thought suffices them, without investing itself in the flesh and blood of action

What's the point of living forever if you can't take a few risks?

Like everything else in his life, he crashed forward, caution the first casualty.

There is nothing to fear but fear itself, the captain announces from the helm, and the occasional man-eating monster.