Quotes About Risk

I've taken the leap of faith to stop punching the company time clock and start working for myself. I'm now the CEO of Starfish Media Group, my production company, in New York City.

I graduated high school early, and I moved to New York before I even knew I was going to college or anything.

New York is where you go to catch a big fish.

Seven years ago, when I started free soloing long, hard routes in Yosemite - climbing without a rope, gear or a partner - I did it because it seemed like the purest, most elegant way to scale big walls. Climbing, especially soloing, felt like a grand adventure, but I never dreamed it could be a profession.

We jump every day in Yosemite.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.

If you never try, you'll never know what you are capable of.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

You can't get anywhere in life without taking risks.

You can't be successful in business without taking risks. It's really that simple.

If something's important enough, you should try. Even if - the probable outcome is failure.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

If you're afraid to fail, then you're probably going to fail.

Don't let people make you afraid of taking chances in life. And if you fail, it's no big deal. Get back up and fight through it and be successful again. If you did it once, you can do it again.

The worst problem I've probably had was the gambling - you can do your money in the bookies a lot quicker than you can do it in the pub.

Every time you go out there to do something, you wonder if you can do it. There's no assured success. There's no secret recipe for success. Every time you go out there, you go out there with the possibility of great failure.

If you do anything for 40 years, you can do it comfortably. And it will always be good. But unless you're willing to risk it being bad, it can never be great.

I want to be scared. I want to keep taking insane risks. I want to be scared because you're going to grow through that whether you want to or not. I don't want to play the same guy. I want to keep throwing curveballs to you guys and keep telling stories.

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

Live fast, die young, and leave a good looking corpse.

When you are young, you do a lot of stupid things.

That first tape I did dropped in 2009. It was just for fun, I'm like 'I'm just going to do something to have fun.' Everyone was just 'put out a tape. You're young. You've got money. It ain't gonna hurt you. Who's it gonna hurt?' So what I ended up doing was I put out the tape, pressed up 20,000 CDs, flooded the streets.