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Quotes About Risk

The key to success is to risk thinking unconventional thoughts. Convention is the enemy of progress.
~ Trevor Baylis
Winning means being unafraid to lose.
~ Fran Tarkenton
Do not put all your eggs in one basket.
~ Warren Buffett
Uncertainty is where things happen. It is where the opportunities - for success, for happiness, for really living - are waiting.
~ Oliver Burkeman
You cannot achieve success without the risk of failure...You cannot achieve success if you FEAR failure.
~ Paul Heyman
Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.
~ James E. Burke
When 99% of people doubt your idea, you're either gravely wrong or about to make history.
~ Scott Belsky
Life is something that everyone should try at least once.
~ Henry Tillman
We unfortunately live in a corporate world where group decision making is made to avoid failure rather than to achieve success.
~ Bill Cahan
Starting a company, your success is going to be very dependent on how you adapt. You're going to make decisions, you're going to make bets; most of them are going to turn out to be wrong.
~ Jeremy Stoppelman
An investment said to have an 80% chance of success sounds far more attractive than one with a 20% chance of failure. The mind can't easily recognize that they are the same.
~ Daniel Kahneman
The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I've never began any important venture for which I felt adequate prepared
~ Sheldon B. Kopp
The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
~ Dale Carnegie
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
~ Helen Keller
All financial success comes from acting on a plan. A lot of financial failure comes from reacting to the market
~ Nick Murray
Great achievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success, but by the fear of failure.
~ Larry Ellison
Unless you walk out into the unknown, the odds of making a profound difference in your life are pretty low.
~ Tom Peters
Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.
~ Tom Krause
Success is the child of audacity.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
"If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying."
~ Coleman Hawkins
Each climber loses one finger or toe once in a while. This is a small but important reason for Polish climbers success. Western climbers haven't lost as many fingers or toes.
~ Wanda Rutkiewicz
You only have to solve two problems when going to the moon: first, how to get there; and second, how to get back. The key is don't leave until you have solved both problems.
~ Jim Rohn