Quotes About Risk-taking

Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog.

Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable...

Audacity, always audacity - soundest principal of strategy.

I give my mind the liberty to follow the first wise or foolish idea that presents itself

He could hardly imagine anymore what his life would be without the weight of his hidden knowledge. He'd come to think of it as a kind of penance. It was self-destructive, he could see that, but that was the way things were. People smoked, they jumped out of airplanes, they drank too much and got into their cars and drove without seat belts.

Rachel knew what she was doing. And when she didn't, she could improvise on the fly, coming up with options that left a lot of collateral damage but usually only hurt herself, not the people around her. It was one of the things he would never admit that he admired about her.

To seek visions, to dream dreams, is essential, and it is also essential to try new ways of living, to make room for serious experimentation, to respect the effort even where it fails.

when you summon the courage to do what others won't, you will have in life what others don't.

Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something then you're more willing to take risks.

Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you.

Encouragers are people who have been successful themselves. They are people who stepped up and took risks and were able to accomplish things they may not have believed possible. Encouragers are the kind of people you can share your goals with and they will encourage you to go for it. Encouragers will also share their own mistakes with you and tell you how they overcame them to achieve success.

A weak mind has everything to fear and nothing to dare. A bold mind is enthusiastic; it is ready to dare and has no time for fear.

To go where no one else has ever gone before is the secret of heroism.

We were born to be free, to expand our horizons by going where we have never gone before, and not to hang out in the relative comfort and safety of the nest, the known. There is a place within us that is courageous beyond our human understanding; it yearns to explore beyond the boundaries of our daily life.

Nunca miedo de innovar. Miedo nunca de innovar.

Unless you cross the comfort zone and enter the realm of uncertainty where the failures are more likely than successes, you'll never realize your true capabilities and strengths. In my view, Leaders must be fearless to cross the comfort zone, and step outside-the-box to explore unknown territories.

The knowledge that you can handle anything that comes your way is the key to allowing yourself to take risks. ... security is not having things; it's handling things.

Leadership requires creating conditions that enable employees to do the kinds of experimentation that entrepreneurship requires.

A risk-taking environment starts at the top of a corporation. If the CEO doesn't have this spirit, chances are you won't find it anywhere else in the organization.

I've learned so much from my mistakes... I'm thinking of making some more.

If you are going to have a risk-taking culture, you can't really look at every failure as a failure, you've got to be able to look at the failure as a learning opportunity.

If you want to achieve widespread impact and lasting value, be bold.

We must dare, and dare again, and go on daring.

The race will go to the curious, the slightly mad, and those with an un-satiated passion for learning and dare-deviltry.