Quotes About Risk-taking

Paul would have jumped on a plane and asked questions later, and been there a day before we were there. That's who he was. He was fearless.

The indie film scene was like a playground for me, which allowed me to try all sorts of things without being judged.

If you watch the Cruiserweight Classic, you want different professional wrestling. You want guys who are going to go out there, put their bodies on the line, and show you passion.

I wanted to have a creative director crazy enough to say, 'Sure, I'll do a collection in five days.'

I dropped out of college when I was 18 to be in a band.

Lots of comics try stuff out all year round, which is very sensible - I don't.

When we started NFL Films, there were no focus groups, there were no demographic studies, there were no surveys. Every decision that we made, we made with our hearts, not with our heads. And, in the very beginning, we really didn't even have a business plan.

Just tasking a team to be creative won't get you to be innovative. It's having a corporate climate that gives people the space to experiment and take risks. Only then can you truly sustain it.

We want to do sweaters for dogs and call it 'Bark Jacobs.' If it works, great. If it doesn't, we'll drop it and do something different.

Adult Swim's philosophy is, 'Put it on the air and if it works, great. If it doesn't, take it down and try again.' It's a refreshing way to do TV, I think.

I run a creative company, and the best way to support creatives is to make them fearless and willing to take big swings. That is an important part of our culture at A&E Networks.

I've got Peter Pan syndrome. It's not that I refuse to grow up - I love building businesses; I want to be a good husband, a good father. But I don't want to be boring. I don't want to be normal.

All meine Grenzgänge sind ausschließlich meiner Verantwortung unterworfen. »Höhere« und unpersönliche Regeln gibt es in diesem Zusammenhang nicht. Ich fragte auch nie nach »erlaubt oder verboten«, es ging mir immer nur um »möglich oder unmöglich«. Sinn gab allein ich selbst meinem Tun.

Fun is at the core of the way I like to do business and it has been key to everything I've done from the outset. More than any other element, fun is the secret of Virgin's success. I am aware that the ideas of business as being fun and creative goes right against the grain of convention, and it's certainly not how the they teach it at some of those business schools, where business means hard grind and lots of 'discounted cash flows' and net' present values'.

The key enterprising skills I used when first starting out are the very same ones I use today: the art of delegation, risk-taking, surrounding yourself with a great team and working on projects you really believe in.

Try everything once. Except incest and folk dancing.' Sir Thomas Beecham

On impulse, Joan and I decided to fly down to the Virgin Islands. We had nowhere to stay and not very much money, but I heard that if you expressed a serious interest in buying an island the local estate agent would put you up for nothing in a grand villa and fly you all around the Virgin Islands by helicopter.

En conclusión, este es mi consejo: trabaje duro para mejorar su suerte, no se ponga debajo de un árbol durante una tormenta y jamás sienta miedo de hablar con desconocidos. Nunca se sabe: ¡a lo mejor puede encontrarse con su propio Sergey!

We will call something "tempting" if we consume more of it when hot than when cold. None of this means that decisions made in a cold state are always better. For example, sometimes we have to be in a hot state to overcome our fears about trying new things.

Once you recognize the break-even effect and the house money effect, it is easy to spot them in everyday life. It occurs whenever there are two salient reference points, for instance where you started and where you are right now. The house money effect—along with a tendency to extrapolate recent returns into the future—facilitates financial bubbles.

In October 1864 the Scottish literary magazine Blackwood's published a satirical article on superfluous Victorian hobbies, especially extreme sports and the fashion for futile risk-taking. It was particularly fierce on the desire to rise above one's station.

A policy of moving out and doing it, and asking forgiveness afterward, is much better than a policy of asking permission and having it denied.

In scientific work, creative thinking demands seeing things not seen previously, or in ways not previously imagined; and this necessitates jumping off from "normal" positions, and taking risks by departing from reality.

Young people don't always do what they're told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderful, sometimes they escape punishment.