Quotes About Risk

Comedy is incredibly hard. You have to be loose. You have to be not afraid to fail.

Forget about banks that are too big to fail; the focus should be on cities, municipalities and countries that are too big to fail.

The only way to make sure no bank is too big to fail is to make sure no bank is too big.

If the idea is really new and unique and big, other people will all think it is bad and is going to fail.

Basically, I thought I had nothing to lose so I'd try my luck as a stand-up comedian. So even if it all failed, I was at the bottom of the food-chain anyway.

I knew I wanted to try comedy and acting. Even if I failed, at least I would have tried. It's better than never having tried.

I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting.

I think as an actor, you're constantly putting yourself out there, and a lot of times failing - and failing in front of a bunch of people - and sometimes you have a good moment and something clicks.

I grew and learned, journeyed and understood, that someone who is afraid of failing won't get anywhere, and someone who dares to do it runs the risk of failure if they don't learn, correct their mistakes, and get back up.

I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.

Most of all I don't want to be bored. That's why I'd rather do something that has some sort of ambition, that risks failing, rather than make safer, more comfortable choices.

I always say if you're not failing, you're not trying.

I was kind of scared of failing at acting.

I don't care about failing because I do not want to sit down in my older years and say, 'How come I didn't try?'

There's something about being a comedian that means you have to not be scared of failing because failing is part of the process.

Living in Chicago, you have got to not be afraid about failing at something.

When you have your own business, you don't mind failing if it makes you better in the long run.

I used to think that my business mirrored my climbing - if I wasn't failing at something, I just wasn't trying anything hard enough.

I'm scared of failing. I'm scared to lose.

Bailing out every bank that fails makes the system riskier, not safer.

If your first film fails, no one is ready to put money on you any further. But if you have faith in yourself, you will definitely make it.

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

We do not become an astronaut because we fear not only the risk of space, but we fear the risk of failure along the way more than we want to put in the work to make it happen - and it is easier not to try.

You have to be willing to have failures along the way.