Quotes About Risk

I don't fear failure because if you don't fail, you would not know the secret of success.

The activities you are most afraid of are the activities that can cause a breakthrough in your success. Step into them.

The amount of success it takes for leaders to become overconfident isn't terribly large.

To do the impossible, you need to ignore the popular.

There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.

If there are two or more ways to do something and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.

Because if you're prepared and you know what it takes, it's not a risk. You just have to figure out how to get there. There is always a way to get there.

In order to succeed, you have to live dangerously.. as long as the danger is rationally accepted and as long as the rewards far outweigh the risk.

Whatever you do, don't play it safe. Don't do things the way they've always been done. Don't try to fit the system. If you do what's expected of you, you'll never accomplish more than others expect.

The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.

You have to have the fighting spirit. You have to force moves and take chances

If there had been no fear of failure, neither would there be any joy in success.

Realize that ultimate success comes from opportunistic,bold moves which by definition, cannot be planned.

I'd rather invest in an entrepreneur who has failed before than one who assumes success from day one.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

Nine out of ten businesses fail; so I came up with a foolproof plan - create ten businesses.

Like everybody, I have invested in things that have gone bad, because there's never any guarantee of success or profit when it comes to money.

If you aren't afraid to fail, then you probably don't care enough about success.

Most people think small, because most people are afraid of success, afraid of making decisions, afraid of winning. And that gives people like me a great advantage.

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

Success has killed more men than bullets.

You get rich because you do things most people will not do. Success requires sacrifice. You must be willing to make those sacrifices.

If you find that your organization can't make the hard decisions that Scrum demands, then high-risk, uncertain projects have very little probability of success in your organization.

Do not neglect the principles of foresight and know that often, puffed up with success, armies have lost the fruit of their heroism through a feeling of false security.