Quotes About Risk-taking

For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!

I will walk where failures fear to walk.

Why live boring, if you can make things exceptional...

Just do it! let others try it.

Live your life today without any fear of unknown.Be strong and courageous to seek new path.

Always be bold in everything you do, because boldness has genius, power and magic in it which makes impossibility possible

Everyone should be encouraged to start his own business, not just some rare breed that self-identifies as entrepreneurs.

Anyone who creates a new business is a starter. You don't need an MBA, a certificate, a fancy suit, a briefcase, or an above-average tolerance for risk. You just need an idea, a touch of confidence, and a push to get started.

Use this time to make mistakes without the whole world hearing about them. Keep tweaking. Work out the kinks. Test random ideas. Try new things. No one knows you, so it's no big deal if you mess up. Obscurity helps protect your ego and preserve your confidence.

Here's the list of opposing ideas that successful reinventors say you need in your head: Hold on tight and freely let go. Be hard-nosed and soft hearted. Focus on a clear destination and search for new horizons. Take big risks and make small bets. Be frugal and still splurge. Think big and act small. Be highly creative and obsessively down-to-earth. Thoughtfully work your plan and improvise without thinking too much.

KISS A LOT OF FROGS "The successful don't start with brilliant ideas … they discover them!" —Peter Sims, best-selling author and venture capitalist

Because you aren't afraid to kiss the dirt (and consequently dare to climb the sky)

I did it on a wing and a prayer, and even though I didn't have enough confidence to do the show, I had a theory; if I assume I have the confidence, I'll tell everyone I'm doing it, and then people will come and we'll actually do it. Once we've done it, I'll have the confidence to do it again. It was some sort of weird positive-thinking confidence mantra because I had to get there.

I don't go to the doctor except when I'm very ill, and when I go to India, I drink a drop of local water.

I've jumped out of an airplane 34 times. I've dove 212 feet under water. I've done a lot of things that defied death.

I've ended up water skiing behind the Stanford rowing team as well as water skiing behind an excavator while it swung around in a circle.

I've got $130 million in the bank and a whiteboard full of cool ideas for emerging markets and technologies where we're gonna test the waters and see what happens.

I'm a curious person, and I always like to test new waters, and I've always jumped into the cold water and then started to think about how to swim.

When I took off on nearly vertical waves that no one else would touch, people assumed I had no fear. When they watched me suffer epic wipeouts then come up smiling, it was decided I had a screw loose.

I always wanted to be that guy who pushed the envelope in all kind of ways and tried something new. When I keep that rule going, it always takes me to a new place. There are times when I fail miserably, but I always find myself knowing one more thing better, doing one more thing that I never did before.

When I'm at my best, I'm trying to destabilize myself and figure out new ways of approaching art as a provocation. I think I am at my best when I push myself into a place where I don't have all the answers.

The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.

I like going to Burning Man, for example. An environment where people can try new things. I think as technologists we should have some safe places where we can try out new things and figure out the effect on society. What's the effect on people, without having to deploy it to the whole world.

Entrepreneurs can't forecast accurately, because they are trying something fundamentally new. So they will often be laughably behind plan - and on the brink of success.