Quotes About Risk

I don't believe in having safety nets - you'll end up using them!

People really in the meat grinder of the front lines are not, for the most part, insured or salaried network correspondents. They're young freelancers. They're kind of a cheap date for the news industry.

If you choose a market that already exists, say, networking equipment, you have to compete with an established company like Cisco. Even if your product is marginally better, Cisco can fudge it and outsell you.

The networks are business-oriented cowards.

I know that when you take a risk, the consequence will never be a neutral response; it will either be very positive or very negative.

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

There are some keys to success in the fad business. One is never give up. You need total motivation and the right kind of creativity. You also have to back the right activity. It is a disaster if you back the wrong idea with your energy. You not only lose money, but you take a big social risk.

Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong.

Never take a loan against your retirement! When you pay interest against your retirement, you cost yourself interest.

The danger sensation is exciting. The challenge is to find new dangers.

One reason why entrepreneurs are admired is that they often take on a degree of risk in launching a new business.

It can be difficult to find investment for a new business, particularly one which is highly innovative or breaks new ground.

I like a new challenge.

I like new challenges.

You need to always try to find new challenges.

Every game is a new game, and anything can happen.

New ideas that fly in the face of conventional wisdom of the day are always greeted with doubt and scorn, even fear.

Telling parents in New Jersey you want to act isn't exactly like telling them you want to be a doctor or a dentist. There are no guarantees. It's hard, but all the arts are. Can you imagine the pain of writer's block?

But once I went for it, left my inhibitions aside and saw its eventual success, it made me much more comfortable and eager THIS time around to take it to a whole new level.

I know certainly that my parents sacrificed a lot to come to America, and to... start a new life for their family and their future families. At least with first-generation Asian-American immigrants, parents put so much risk in work and to provide the best for their children.

In the 1960s, if you could save $500, you had enough to move to another city and start a new life.

I believe in taking big risks. If you encourage new people, they want to prove themselves. They give their best. This is not possible with established stars, who treat their job casually most of the time.

If you want to tell a new story, it is a risk. But then you have to do it in the best financial way as possible.

I'm always looking for a new thing that really terrifies me that I think I can't do it and accomplish that.