Quotes About Risk

The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

They that soar too high, often fall hard, making a low and level Dwelling preferable. The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune. Buildings have need of a good Foundation, that lie so much exposed to the Weather.

The world owes its progress to the men who have dared

If you can be sure of being right only 55 percent of the time, you can go down to Wall Street and make a million dollars a day. If you can't be sure of being right even 55 percent of the time, why should you tell other people they are wrong?

I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the army and the Government needed a dictator. Of course, it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up as dictators. What I now ask of you is military success and I will risk the dictatorship.

Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That's what life's all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.

If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.

What if I don't like adventure? Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That's how you grow.

That's what life's all about Dolores, climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.

What if, that afternoon in my office, I had stood and risked fatherhood? Offered him a pair of sheltering arms? Would it have been enough to keep him from going down there and doing what he did? What if? What if? What if? ...

What if I don't like adventure?" I said. Ruth dragged over a kitchen chair and sat down facing me. "Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That's how you grow.

I got on my bike and drove, fast and recklessly. The humid air pushed thick against my face; if a child had walked in front of my path, I might have killed it. I sped past Jeanette's street and past the Treetop Acres sign and onto Route 118. I squeezed the rubber handlebar caps, squeezed the shaking out of myself. I hated both of them. The harder I pedaled—the more I risked—the better it felt.

Sail Forth- Steer for the deep waters only. Reckless O soul, exploring. I with thee and thou with me. For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared go. And we will risk the ship, ourselves, and all.

To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts. One brief house of madness and joy!

Caution seldom goes far enough.

Do not write the conclusion of a work in your familiar study. You would not find the necessary courage there.

W)hen you're playing with fire you've got to deal with the heat...And fire ain't particular about who it burns.

How do you keep your guys safe? Coles asked. By killing everything that ain't smiling, and half of everything that is, the marine captain answered.

On Startups: I hate it when people call themselves entrepreneurs when what they're really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell or go public, so they can cash in and move on.

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

It's better to be a pirate than to join the navy.

I wanted to throw caution and logic to the wind and join Apple

You're better off to go out and start your own company and fail than it is to stick at one company for thirty years.