Quotes About Risk

I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work.

According to the moral absolutism that characterizes McCandless's beliefs, a challenge in which a successful outcome is assured isn't a challenge at all.

I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds.

I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.

Yes, my love, who soever lives, loses, . . . but he also wins. [Ger., Ja, meine Liebe, wer lebt, verliebt . . . aber er gewinnt auch.]

I go out there to win. People don't care if you die in this business. The only way I get back is with success.

Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.

The first quality of courage is the willingness to launch with no guarantees. The second quality of courage is the ability to endure when there is no success in sight.

Growth does not always lead a business to build on success. All too often it converts a highly successful business into a mediocre large business.

Failure isn't a problem. It's the fear of failure that's the limiting factor. You can't lose your nerve for the big failure, because it's the exact same nerve you need for the big success.

Experimentation has been the key factor in the success of Western capitalism

Failure can be bought on easy terms; success must be paid for in advance

If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.

The antidote for fear of failure is not success but small doses of failure.

The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organsie gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.

Failure is hard, but success is far more dangerous. If you're successful at the wrong thing, the mix of praise and money and opportunity can lock you in forever.

Adventurers tend to prance about the ladder of success, fearing less the sensation of a great fall than the humility of hanging idle.

If failure had no penalty success would not be a prize.

There is not only a lack of success for condoms. It's worse than that - they are utter failures.

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail. The fear of criticism, in such cases is stronger than the DESIRE for success.

In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.

That the chance of gain is naturally over-valued, we may learn from the universal success of lotteries.

As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing.