Quotes About Risk

The record of a month's roulette playing at Monte Carlo can afford us material for discussing the foundations of knowledge.

If you rush to take a drug, do so with the full knowledge that you are being a Guinea Pig. The longer a drug is on the market, the more will be known about the side effects.

There is no knowledge without risk taking.

Fear is where the information is.

The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: "Adventures are to the adventurous."

As countries get rich they start increasing education and the very educated people tend to not like trial and error, because they think they're obligated to use the body of knowledge they have.

Companies have to take risks to get new knowledge, in a manner similar to how jazz musicians take risks when they go after a new approach to a tune or a performance.

Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance.

no knowledge obtained without risk

I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.

I read a lot, almost anything and everything. I make an effort to use any knowledge I attain and express my opinions even at the risk of being wrong at times.

If a little knowledge is dangerous - where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

So many businesses today have wind-up because of fear of failing.

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

True #leadership isn't the bastion of a few who sit at the top ... We all need to step up, take the risk and put our interests second-not always-but when it counts.

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

If the experience of leadership is like being at the edge of an unfamiliar chasm, the act of leadership is building a bridge across that chasm.

Leaders know that the fruit of life is out on a limb.

I would rather gamble on our vision than make a 'me, too' product.

Take the job or the project that scares you a little. It's the one with the most to teach you.

You don't know what you can get away with until you try.

The tiny cost of failure...is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.