Quotes About Risk

The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don't have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven't had that fear.

If you want to be an entrepreneur, fail as fast as you can. The longer you go without that experience, the more afraid you will be of it, and then you will never do it!

Leadership is scarce because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead.

Creativity requires the willingness to look stupid.

We must not lose our faculty to dare, particularly in dark days.

Leadership is about uncertainty. Deal with it

Strong professional communities risk and sometimes relish conflict.

Originality is so hip and cool, but to be original you must dare to be corny.

Stop categorizing and labeling! This is your way to avoid the unknown but brings the risk to avoid the new!

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers from which they dare not dismount.

The day I stop giving is the day I stop receiving. The day I stop learning is the day I stop growing. You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Failure is a learning experience, and the guy who has never failed has never done anything.

Never be afraid to fail. Be afraid of not learning from mistakes.

The process of growing and learning always involves risk.

Don't be afraid to go for positions, jobs or take on clients just outside of your knowledge base. It's when you're uncomfortable that you learn and grow the most.

Mistakes are inevitable in aviation, especially when one is still learning new things. The trick is to not make the mistake that will kill you.

Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown.

Don't fear the unknown. Embrace the opportunity. Failure is not permanent it is the essence of learning.

I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

High performing organizations have cultures of creativity and risk. They encourage workers to innovate and play.

Stay firmly in your path and dare; be wild two hours a day!

I've learned it's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing.

Action learning particularly obliges subjects to become aware of their own value systems, by demanding that the real problems tackled carry some risk of personal failure.

The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.