Quotes About Risk

Orchid hunting is a mortal occupation.

Clearly, there has been a lack of imagination about how much can go wrong.

Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surprise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more securely.

I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.

I, myself, have had many failures and I've learned that if you are not failing a lot, you are probably not being as creative as you could be -you aren't stretching your imagination.

There's a great fear of the imagination. It's a dangerous thing. It's out of control, it's subversive.

I worry that free imagination is overvalued, and I think this carries risks.

Those who start in business with too little money are more likely to succeed than those who start with too much. Energy and imagination are the springboards to wealth creation.

Imagination is the voice of the daring.

We suffered failures of imagination just like everyone else, our daring was wanting, and our daily contentment too nearly adequate for us to give it up.

Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.

I'm going to steal the Declaration of Independence.

Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.

Dream big and dare to fail.

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

I'm not the guy who's afraid of failure. I like to take risks, take the big shot and all that.

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, there can be no doubt. But that is not what great ships are built for.

He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.

There are always a lot of people so afraid of rocking the boat that they stop rowing. We can never get ahead that way.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.