Quotes About Risk

What could go wrong? I said & she shook her head. I thought you had more imagination than that, she said. —Fertile Imagination

It was too easy to follow the path you were on, rather than looking for cross-trails that might take you somewhere scary.

What chances are you willing to take to get what you want? What dangers do your choices create for other people?

You've been there before?" "Twenty-odd years ago on the U-2 program." Ross was intrigued; he's still a collegiate at heart — young enough to be eager-beaverish. "What's it like up there?" "The end of the world.

Discovery is dangerous . . . but so is life. A man unwilling to take risk is doomed never to learn, never to grow, never to live.

Sure, this will probably end up being another in a long line of emotionally crippling misadventures...but let's try to have some fun along the way.

I tried to make money as a kid. I had a lemonade stand for about six weeks. I made no money. I had to burn it down and collect insurance.

Maupassant used to eat at the restaurant in the Eiffel Tower because it was the only place in Paris where he did not risk seeing the Eiffel Tower.

All of us conceal in conversation clues to personality which we happily reveal on paper, because the added distance of writing lends protection and encourages the risks of intimacy.

If you're not falling, you're not really trying hard enough. JOE QUESADA Joe Quesada is an award-winning comics creator and the chief creative officer of Marvel Entertainment, who served as editor-in chief of Marvel for over a decade.

Take the risk that you'll end up regretting your speech, because it's better than regretting your silence.

Fear of any undertaking, to her way of thinking, was usually a reason to go ahead with it.

The situation was grim. My main leader had become what mushers refer to as an "alligator," liable to attack anything or anybody.

Even in safe havens, men have enemies

Fear prevents us from growing...go to where the fear is.

If you like a person you say 'let's go into business together.' Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

On Mars, Venus, Mercury, and the moons of Jupiter, human beings were more free—free to found their own petty nations and ruin their own lives their own way. But

Bus factor (noun): the number of people that need to get hit by a bus before your project is completely doomed.

At Google, one of our favorite mottoes is "Failure is an option." It's widely recognized that if you're not failing now and then, you're not being innovative enough or taking enough risks.

When it's too easy to get money, then you get a lot of noise mixed in with the real innovation and entrepreneurship. Tough times bring out the best parts of Silicon Valley.

A lot of people think, 'I'll give acting or poetry or filmmaking a try. And if it doesn't work out I'll go get a law degree, do something else that's more practical.' For me I went the reverse way. I lived the back-up plan.

With love, you should go ahead and take the risk of getting hurt... because love is an amazing feeling.

More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works.