Quotes About Risk

When you have come to the edge of all the light you have And step into the darkness of the unknown Believe that one of the two will happen to you Either you'll find something solid to stand on Or you'll be taught how to fly!

None of us really has anything to lose. That makes it easier to give away.

To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth.

Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.

He that dare not die, dare scarce fight valiantly (475).

The sweetest poison doth often bring the surest death (645).

Baron Rothschild quipped that there are "three principal ways to lose your money: wine, women, and engineers. While the first two are more pleasant, the third is by far more certain.

Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes – then learn how to do it later!

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

It is only by being bold that you get anywhere. If you are a risk-taker, then the art is to protect the downside.

Business isn't about ties, suits and briefcases. It's about adventure.

If you opt for a safe life, you will never know what it's like to win.

You're guaranteed to miss every shot you don't take.

the best motto to follow is 'Nothing ventured; nothing gained'.

Throughout my business life I have always tried to keep on top of costs and protect the downside risk as much possible. The Virgin Group has survived only because we have always kept tight control of our cash. But, likewise, I also know that sometimes it is essential to break these rules and spend lavishly.

Whatever your goal is you will never succeed unless you let go of your fears and fly.

If someone offers you an Amazing opportunity and you're not sure you can do it, say Yes - then learn how to do it later.

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a ride!

how slim the line is between genius and insanity and between determination and stubbornness.

There are many ways to run a successful company. What works once may never work again. What everyone tells you never to do may just work, once. There are no rules. You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over, and it's because you fall over that you learn to save yourself from falling over.

Cover the downside.

I was in a round the world hot-air balloon race. Before I left, I wrote a long letter to my children, in case I didn't return. I started the letter by saying, 'Dear Holly and

If someone offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes - then learn how to do it later!