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Quotes About Risk

Success sometimes can really bite you in the shorts.
~ Donny Osmond
It is true that success is the most boring thing, it is tinny and brittle, failure runs deeper. Success is dangerous. I have a very complicated relationship with that word.
~ Arundhati Roy
Success is a dangerous element in any endeavor. Embrace the struggle. Beware the achievement. For it steals your caution even as it leads you down the next unknown pathway.
~ Laurence Gonzales
The greatest success goes to the person who is not afraid to fail in front of even the largest audience.
~ David Packard
Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies.
~ Warren Buffett
The unexpected cannot guarantee success, but it guarantees the best chance of success.
~ B. H. Liddell Hart
Without knowledge and a workable plan, you are gambling, with little or no chance of success.
~ Robert G. Allen
If failure is not an option, neither is success. Innovation is just repeated failure till you come up with something that works.
~ Seth Godin
There are no guarantees in life. The simple twists of fate and the breaks of the game are the two maxims that define so much of the success and failure in life.
~ Bill Walton
Who wanted to creep along in comfort when there was one chance in a thousand of flying?
~ Gail Godwin
The fishing is best where the fewest go and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone is aiming for base hits.
~ Timothy Ferriss
The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
It is wise to remember that too much success in the stock market is in itself an excellent warning.
~ Gerald M. Loeb
We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.
~ Alan Shearer
What a new face courage puts on everything!
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
In some ways, it's easier to settle for someone else's version of success than to risk falling short at one's own.
~ Peter Buffett
If risk is the key factor to success and really smart people avoid it, you might not be dumb enough to succeed!
~ Garrison Wynn
Success is seldom achieved by people who contemplate the possibility of failure
~ William Feather
There is anything but an assurance of success, I have to be very clear about that.
~ Angela Merkel
People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
To have big success, you must have big dreams, and you must be willing to take a chance.
~ Sumner Redstone
When we got Tesla going at the very beginning, if you asked me what I thought the odds of success were, I would have said less than 50%. I would have said that failure is the most likely outcome.
~ Elon Musk
Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who is afraid to risk failure seldom has to face success.
~ John Wooden