Quotes About Risk

Give your idea a chance. You'll never hit a home run (or a base hit for that matter) if you don't swing.

The competition is out to get you. Are you a moving target or a sitting duck? Innovate or die.

Beware: If you egg people on, you'll get egg on your face.

If only 1 out of 10 businesses succeeds, start 10 businesses. Just sayin.

When someone says you can't do something because of XYZ, is that true? Or are they playing with your life with their good intentions to keep you safe?

How much longer will you wait until you take a chance on yourself?

Success is likened to a deep pit, you have to jump in to get it, then you'll need a ladder of grace to climb out to enjoy it.

I've discovered I am most comfortable outside my comfort zone.

We can create transcending stories for readers and for us. Creativity is a double edge sword, which can kill the writer.

Risk little, earn little. Risk much, earn much. Risk all, earn all.

Life is about learning to fly, when everyone says you will fall.

If you always lived in comfort you would miss the adventure that is uncomfortable, but of great reward.

It's laughable to claim the pro-life label while simultaneously putting people's lives at risk because you're too stubborn to acknowledge that Medicaid doesn't fund abortions.

The longer you're stuck in a position that doesn't truly challenge you, the less likely you'll be able to leave it. Inertia, in fact, is one of my worst fears.

I got my heel stuck in a drain as I was crossing the street and cars were coming. It was really scary. A girl in heels in New York is a hard combination.

'Shun security,' I advise aspiring novelists when they complain to me that they are stuck. 'Get disoriented. Maybe your agonizing writing block isn't agonizing enough. Your enemy is comfort.'

I have always stuck my neck out on policy issues.

George Dunne stuck his neck out for me in the '70s, when it wasn't a very popular thing to do.

I am a poker player, but I am not a good poker player. My favorite game is seven card stud, but I'll play hi/lo, Hold 'em, Razz, etc.

Whether you're an entrepreneur, an employee, a student, a homemaker, a writer, it's time to start forgetting about all the ways the world has promised you safety and comfort.

You might say those who can't repay their student debts shouldn't have borrowed in the first place. But they had no way of knowing just how bad the jobs market would become.

For a black student to work in southwest Mississippi for example - or in the Delta in 1960, 1961, 1962 - was high-risk work.

Private student loans should be avoided at all costs.

It's been studied to the point where we know that the impact on humans would be from consuming the most infected parts of the cow; that is, the brain and the spinal cord.