Quotes About Risk

Move fast, take risks, it's okay to try big things you're better off trying something and having it not work and learning from that than having not done anything at all.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

I don't think you can create anything interesting from a comfort zone. You have to work from a place of fear and failure.

You learn so much from taking chances, whether they work out or not. Either way, you can grow from the experience and become stronger and smarter.

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

Go ahead, work hard and never be afraid to try something. Even if you don't make it, at least you can say you tried

Never turn down a job because you think it's too small, you don't know where it can lead.

The work that I'm proudest of is the work that I'm most afraid of.

Follow your instincts - you never know if your ideas will work out unless you try them.

You only do good work when you're taking risks and pushing yourself.

It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway.

What has worked before is never as good as something that has never been tried before, even if it doesn't work.

If you only do what you know and do it very, very well, chances are that you won't fail. You'll just stagnate, and your work will get less and less interesting, and that's failure by erosion

A sense of uncertainty that is potentially fatal is what makes climbing an adventure. Anything less is just working out

Sometimes you just have to try, even if you know it won't work.

I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat on my face.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.

You never know exactly how new policies are going to work. That doesn't mean you shouldn't try them.

Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

There are two things I will never do in my life. I will never climb Mount Everest, and I will never work with Val Kilmer again. There isn't enough money in the world.

You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have.

When you take high risks, the rewards are higher. So sometimes I'll gamble just to see what happens. If it doesn't work, I know I can't do that.

When I went to work in a studio, I took my pride and made a nice little ball of it and threw it right out the window.