Quotes About Risk

You have to take your own bold approach, and if you do you will be rewarded with success. Or calamitous failure. That can happen too.

Most entrepreneurs will admit luck plays a part in success.

A lot of people, even my parents, thought, "Art school, I don't know. We'll support you but the success rate for artists is really slim."

Success is beautiful and dangerous.

The things we do without the fear of failure and the desire for success are the purest acts we'll ever do

The greater success a man has made, the more he fears a climb down.

maturity meant thinking about risk long before you pondered the reward, and that success and happiness in life were as much about avoiding mistakes as making your mark into the world.

I think we have to be very careful. If we do go back in, we need to understand why and what the probability of success is and exactly what we're going to do and what the limits are.

Men are least safe from what success induces them not to fear.

Success will come. Or it won't. But I think you can only make a go at it in a big way by fully being yourself and taking risks. People can feel risks.

If you're in business it's both a promise and a warning. It says that sometimes little things can cause some little guy to have an overnight success.

In business, to be a success, you only have to be right once.

I never really felt secure until I was well into my 30s, because anytime I had success, I would invest in new projects.

I]f you happen to have any money, lock it up quickly; if you happen to have any jewels, hide them directly; if you happen to have any debtors, make them pay you, or any creditors, don't pay them.

However much a man is inured to taking risks, however well prepared he is for danger, the fluttering of his heart and the pricking of his skin will always let him know the vast difference that lies between dream and reality, planning and execution.

Tuntemattomat vaarat herättävätkin eniten pelkoa.

Tigers and crocodiles with two legs are more dangerous than the rest.

I say that love is a lottery in which he who wins, wins death! You are very fortunate to have lost, believe me, my dear d'Artagnan. And if I have any counsel to give, it is, always lose!

Yes; and remember that two-legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than the others.

Tienen algunas cosas tal aire de imposibles, que no se nos ocurre la idea de intentarlas, y hasta las evitamos instintivamente.

Fortune is a courtesan; favorable yesterday, she may turn her back tomorrow.

Then he said aloud: "Listen, Morrel, I see your grief is great, but still you do not like to risk your soul." Morrel smiled sadly. "Count," he said, "I swear to you my soul is no longer my own.

Ma foi," said Danglars, "it would not be a bad speculation

A fe mía que será la cosa más fácil - dijo Franz -, pues me parece que tengo alas de águila, capaces de dar la vuelta al mundo en veinticuatro horas. - ¡Vaya, vaya! ¡Ya empieza a actuar el hachís; abrid pues, esas alas, y volad a las regiones de la fantasía! Nada os arredre, que hay quien vela por vos, y si vuestras alas se derriten al sol como las de Ícaro, aquí estoy yo para recibiros.