Quotes About Risk

Being an entrepreneur is more than a matter of simply starting a business.

We all have an entrepreneur in us; it's just whether we choose the tradeoffs to become one.

Being an entrepreneur is not a 9-to-5 job.

There is, in fact, nothing easy about being an entrepreneur.

All entrepreneurs make decisions. Some will go right, and some will not go that right.

True entrepreneurs have to really forego almost everything; they have to put it all on the line.

Entrepreneurship is not for everyone.

Someone once described entrepreneurship to me as a series of happy accidents.

You can be a two-pitch guy and be successful, but your room for error is very small.

I don't need to come back to Everest.

Every day is an adventure.

Many people hide inside of their "not-knowing" and, afraid of taking the risk, settle for mediocrity in their life. They imitate the same safe, easy life that other people walk. They mistake that for happiness and, inside of it, look for security. However, the moment that the defensive shields we've built up come down, all truths reveal themselves and speak to us. When we hear our inner voice and follow it, we can walk our own path.

Leben ist angewandte Unsicherheit.

In einer zunehmend sicheren Welt richtet sich die Angst auf immer kleinere oder unwahrscheinlichere Szenarien.

What's the point of not taking chances? I don't know if I could stand living my whole life afraid.

Monster or not, he was risking his neck to save her.

A word of advice, sweetheart: when you're at the brink; when it's a choice between what's safe and what might be better, even if what's best is also scary, take a chance, honey.

After that leap, she really believed she might dare anything, because no matter what, if she jumped, her father would be waiting to swim by her side, stroke for stroke, into forever. Of course, she was nine and her dad was immortal. And nothing lasts forever.

May it always cost the head as long as it does not cost the heart

When I came into politics I always thought there was a possibility I would be killed.

I worked for the Office of Management and Budget in the White House, on nuclear energy policy. But I decided it would be much more fun to have a specialty food store, so I left Washington D.C. and moved to the Hamptons. And how glad I am that I did!

If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile

Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun.

The trick then has to be letting go of the safe, the known and reaching out for what we can't yet see.