Quotes About Risk

If I can't be daring in my work or the way I live my life, then I don't really see the point of being on this planet.

I think that persistence and stubbornness and hard work are probably, at the end of the day, more important than the willingness to take a risk.

Most people who work in prison earn money through contraband.

When you're trying to do character work that's different from what people expect from you, you're sort of in territory that is uncharted, and you don't know how it's playing all the time.

You know. Life's short. If you don't try new things, you'll never know what you're best at. And you can only make time for new things by quitting the things you know don't work for you.

I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.

Crazy ideas sometimes work, and the technological society that we have is built on a foundation of those crazy ideas that work.

If you need to know in advance that everything will 'work out' before you jump in, you'll never jump into anything.

What would be the fun in doing things you know are going to work?

The globally constituted accident can be compared to what people who work at the stock exchange call 'systemic risk'.

Don't ask permission. If it does not work, you can apologize later.

I like working with a first time director. I'm more likely to work with a first time director than I am a second time director.

I'm not one of those people who's so blinded by my own work and my sweat. It's kind of risky writing a memoir when you're really part of a larger universe.

We've got an engaging, edgy, vibrant, fun product, ... It may or may not work, but we're going to give it our best shot.

I'm amazed that movies ever get finished at all - much less come out good once in a while. It's an awful lot of work and it can go wrong a thousand different ways.

But risk is just part of relationships. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.

Once you become a producer, you're really selling something. It is a control issue, because you don't really know how it's going to pan out, but the creative control makes it work it.

The very fact that it might not work is precisely why you should and must do this.

Everyone has a comfort zone. Worth considering: How hard (and how often) are you willing to work to get out of it? You can turn that into a habit if you choose.

It might be bold to put your work into the world unadorned, but it's probably ineffective.

If you're not uncomfortable in your work as a leader, it's almost certain you're not reaching your potential as a leader.

Men in business are in as much danger from those at work under them as from those that work against them.

Writing is not about making a buck, not about publishers and agents. Writing is not about feeling good. Writing is about pain, suffering, hard work, risk, and fear.

You cannot become a master until you actually take the leap, do the work, make several thousand mistakes, and live to tell about it.