Quotes About Risk

There is no science in creativity. If you don't give yourself room to fail, you won't innovate.

If you're afraid of failure or getting it wrong, you'll never truly innovate or disrupt the market.

I believe we are in a world where innovation in stuff was outlawed. It was basically outlawed in the last 40 years - part of it was environmentalism, part of it was risk aversion.

The major challenge facing most foundations is that they are risk averse. This inhibits their ability to experiment and commit to the experimentation and innovation process.

The important thing to remember, if you are trying something that is an innovation, is not to think too much about it. Because if you take too long, by the time you get there, the world will have changed. You take a risk, and if it doesn't work, you make a change. We are not betting our lives on it.

It is the essence of innovation to fail most of the time.

With innovation, there is always risk.

Listen, you never can do anything innovative, you can never do anything special if you always find a way to doubt yourself out of it.

If we didn't have greed, market economies wouldn't be as innovative as they are. But in my view, greed has to be contained by the fear of losses, so there has to be a system where, if you take too much risk, you go into bankruptcy. You don't systematically bail out people who take excessive risks.

Long before 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid', 'Dork Diaries', and the graphic novel explosion, only a small press like Tricycle was willing to take a risk on such an innovative format.

I think if you're going to be a little bit innovative or risk-taking, sometimes you're going to be wrong, and it's going to look bad. I understand that.

One of the banes of successful innovation is that companies may be so committed to innovation that they will give the innovators a lot of money to spend.

So it's conceivable I'll do something insane, or more insane than Dawn of the Dead. If that's possible.

I know it's insane to think that I could fly. But to make it possible, you truly have to believe in it - to go to a place that's not accepted.

I think that if you take a risk, you inspire people, and ultimately, inspiring people is more important than winning.

I follow my heart in almost every instance, and it gets me in trouble most of the time. But I don't care. I think that's the best way I can live.

Defying genre conventions is instantly a risky move.

I'm not gonna play a part that doesn't instill some kind of fear in me. If I read a part, and suddenly, I'm thinking halfway through, 'I'm not sure I could get away with this,' I think of everything I can think of to keep me from doing it, that's the one I should do.

I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.

If a financial institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.

For the first time in American history, it's not clear whether or not it's smart for a 17-year-old to enroll in college. It absolutely depends on the debt load and the quality of the institution. That is a change from the way things always were and, frankly, the way things always should be. It should always be a good idea to go to college.

We talk about institutions that are too big to fail - I think the story is as much about people who think they are too big to fail.

It is impossible to understand the financial health of big financial institutions and their potential impact on the market. They don't even understand it themselves.

We have institutions that have been allowed to become too big to fail because we had all kinds of flaws in our financial infrastructure, in the whole way over-the-counter derivatives work.