Quotes About Risk-taking

You need to make things and not be so precious about whether they're any good or not. Because I have a secret for you: they're not good. They're flawed, and you need to find out what the flaws are as fast as possible.

Entrepreneurs don't believe the future is predictable - but they do believe that they can create the future themselves.

Recessions are the best time to start a company. Companies fail. Others hold back capital. If you are willing to do the preparation and work, it is the best time to invest in yourself and start a business.

The ability to forget is a prerequisite for an entrepreneur.

The score is not a bible, and I am never afraid to dare. The music is behind those dots.

You have to be very brave and very entrepreneurial - you have to dare to create your own brand.

And you must dare to do as many things as you dream of.

I want to validate that I'm the greatest daredevil in daredevil history.

When the crowd appreciates you, it encourages you to be a little more daring, I think.

'Priscilla' was made in 1994, and I think it was kind of daring for its time.

I hardly ever see new plays. They don't have the audacity and daring that they used to.

The more confident I am, the more daring I am.

I guess not being able to hear just made me adventurous and daring. And in most cases, that didn't make my parents very happy with me.

I have always been adventurous and rather daring.

I'm always captivated by stories of women who find a way to be daring - misbehaving women.

I look up to entrepreneurs who command respect and attention for daring to think out of the box and act accordingly.

I realized after my first play that no one was going to offer me roles for theatre. So I started my own theatre company even though I was in deep debt in 1988.

My dad moved to Britain from Bangladesh in the 1960s to work as an actuary for Prudential. However, after seeing an empty retail space in Soho, he decided to open an Asian restaurant instead, despite not having any business experience.

The cult of celebrity turned me off, and when the opportunities came along for me to play different characters, that's what I went for rather than the safe choices.

My parents taught me honesty, truth, compassion, kindness and how to care for people. Also, they encouraged me to take risks, to boldly go. They taught me that the greatest danger in life is not taking the adventure.

Every time in this century we've lowered the tax rates across the board, on employment, on saving, investment and risk-taking in this economy, revenues went up, not down.

We got government off the backs of the people of India, particularly off the backs of India's entrepreneurs. We introduced more competition, both internal competition and external competition. We simplified and rationalized the tax system. We made risk-taking much more attractive.

We have made a decision in our economy to lower taxes on successful risk-taking and have been very successful relative to Europe and Japan.

I don't want to worry about someone calling me and going, 'You better find a way to get another Taylor Swift record out this quarter.' When there's that kind of financial pressure dictating your path, it's hard to take creative risks.