Quotes About Risk

If someone steals your password, you can change it. But if someone steals your thumbprint, you can't get a new thumb. The failure modes are very different.

Faithfulness requires the courage to risk everything on Jesus, the willingness to keep growing, and the readiness to risk failure throughout our lives.

If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this.

If you're not failing, you're not trying hard enough.

It doesn't matter what your probability of failure is. If there's a 90% chance of failure, there's a 10% chance of changing the world.

Ask yourself this: If there was zero chance of failure, what would you do? Now, go do that.

The hardest things to do in any art is to risk failure and put yourself out on the line.

The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.

The greatest secret of winners is that failure inspires winning; thus, they are not afraid of losing.

I started SpaceX with the expectation of failure.

The greatest artists like Dylan, Picasso and Newton risked failure. And if we want to be great, we've got to risk it, too.

The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

A plan is only a scenario, and almost by definition, it is optimistic... As a result, scenario planning can lead to a serious underestimate of the risk of failure.

We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.

Growth always involves the risk of failure.

You can't be paralyzed by fear of failure or you will never push yourself.

Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.

To punish failure is yet another way to encourage mediocrity.

Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It's not optional.

To be a flamboyant failure, that's better than being any kind of benign success

There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail

[C]apitalism without financial failure is not capitalism at all, but a kind of socialism for the rich.

Do not simplify. Do not worry about failure. Failure is a badge of honour. It means you risked failure.

Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails.