Quotes About Risk

The only wishes that will ever change you are the kind that may, at any moment, eat you whole.

You can't just hop in a car and drive to California," she said. "Yes, I can." She let out a frustrated sigh. "Do you ever have that little voice in your head that tells you something is a bad idea?

Le seul risque est de ne pas en prendre

In life, he who risks nothing, gains nothing.' Nothing ventured, nothing gained, as it were.

It is a criterion of love. In moments of decision, we are to try to make what seems to be the most loving, the most creative decision. We are not to play safe, to draw back out of fear. Love may well lead us into danger. It may lead us to die for our friend. In a day when we are taught to look for easy solutions, it is not always easy to hold onto that most difficult one of all, love.

To enjoy the journey is to give until the stretch is a sacrifice. The question always is: what is it in life that will pull you out of your seat to be brave, risk and serve?

Going to New York to do whatever - show business - it just seemed fun. It seemed fun to go to the big city and meet all kinds of different people and maybe be famous. It was just exciting. So I wasn't scared.

Jokainen on valmis mihin tahansa josta ei jää kiinni.

Love is like jumping out of an airplane with no parachute. But there's no need to be frightened, because that plane is still on the ground.

I wish my stove came with a Save As button like Word has. That way I could experiment with my cooking and not fear ruining my dinner.

Wanting something more, and ready to take a risk, Elizebeth quit her job at the Indiana high school in the spring of 1916 and moved back in with her parents to think about what was next.

MAGIC secret. It was a prime example of the brutal choices that codebreakers must live with. Do you take risks to keep a secret that may save hundreds of thousands of future lives, or do you expose the secret to save a small number of lives right now? William once referred to this broad dilemma as "cryptologic schizophrenia," adding, "What to do? Thus far, no real psychiatric or psychoanalytic cure has been found for the illness.

If no one's upset by what you're saying, you're probably not pushing hard enough. (And you're probably boring, too.)

Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.

Failure is not a pre-requisite for success. Already successful entrepreneurs are far more likely to succeed again than who failed

You don't need an MBA, a certificate, a fancy suit, a briefcase, or an above-average tolerance for risk. You just need an idea, a touch of confidence, and a push to get started.

If you want to know the truth about what you've built, you have to ship it. You can test, you can brainstorm, you can argue, you can survey, but only shipping will tell you whether you're going to sink or swim.

Always keeping the door open to radical changes only invites chaos and second-guessing.

Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

you can brainstorm, you can argue, you can survey, but only shipping will tell you whether you're going to sink or swim.

Why don't we just call plans what they really are: guesses. Start referring to your business plans as business guesses, your financial plans as financial guesses, and your strategic plans as strategic guesses. Now you can stop worrying about them as much. They just aren't worth the stress.

Unless you're a fortune-teller, long-term business planning is a fantasy.

Start referring to your business plans as business guesses

We need to add this feature now. We can't launch without this feature. Everyone wants it. It's only one little thing so it will be easy. You should be able to get it in there fast!" Only thirty-six words, but a hundred assumptions. That's a recipe for disaster.