Quotes About Risk

audacity was often the only thing that separated two equally talented men and their job titles.

The choice isn't between success and failure; it's between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity.

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Todos fracasamos alguna vez. No se trata de elegir entre el fracaso y el éxito; sino de escoger el riesgo y aspirar a la grandeza, o no tomar ningún riesgo y asegurarnos la mediocridad.

people with a low tolerance for risk, whose behavior is guided by fear, have a low propensity for success.

I believe that every conversation you have is an invitation to risk revealing the real you.

Risks are what make the difference between new ideas and re-worked old ideas.

There are people who prefer to say 'yes' and there are people who prefer to say 'no'. Those who say 'yes' are rewarded by the adventures they have. Those who say 'no' are rewarded by the safety they attain.

What a person is afraid to do, he does while possessed.

Those who say yes are rewarded by the adventures they have.

Security is an illusion. Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing at all.

You think you're paying your dollar for a chance at the $6.2 million jackpot on Saturday, but really you're paying for the pleasure of the car ride home, deciding which credit card to pay off first and where your kid will suddenly be able to go to college.

The golden age of the "hog man," the producer specializing solely in pork production from his or her family-farm base, had come to an end. And it was just as well; the single-commodity production agriculture that had evolved was neither good risk management nor consistent with the nature of family farms.

Never gamble with a man who knows both sides of the cards.

Don't point a gun at nobody you ain't willin' to shoot, if necessary.

Careful is a naked man climbin' a barbwire fence.

When you are a presence, there are many things you need not do, for it is simply understood you can do them. So you don't do them. You don't risk what you need not risk, you let others' imaginations do them for you, for they do them better than you can. Like the man who opens his mouth to prove he's a fool, often the more you do, the more you look like everyone else.

And here's my advice to you. If you get the chance of the mad kind of love, grab it with both hands, and to hell with the consequences.

And it made me nervous, because I'm the kind of person who should be kept away from romance, the way certain people should be kept away from guns or sharp knives.

he would awake from those dreams with an overpowering sadness and the familiar knowledge that this deprivation could not be alleviated without the risk of further betrayal and the eventual certainty of absolute erasure. Both pains were too extreme to face again. Better, it seemed, just to let his soul die slowly, bit by lonely bit.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

An idea with potential may be damaged beyond repair if criticized or dismissed too early.

The decision to play it safe, to take the path of least resistance, can seem irresistible, particularly if you have your own doubts and fears about the alternatives.

What is true is that if you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.