Quotes About Risk-taking

The way you advance a technological society is to try things - to be controversial and contrarian in your thinking in order to get to something that eventually people say, 'I told you it was a great idea.'

Entrepreneurship is the key to emerging technologies.

If you immediately take a job somewhere, you've given up on the dream of being an entrepreneur and creating jobs for people and making new technologies and making new paths.

There's a freshness to the approach of teen chefs. They're lighthearted, and they're not afraid to take risks.

It's been a teenage fantasy of mine to play Bodhi.

When you're a teenager, you think you're invincible. You don't listen to anyone.

The most dangerous age is 14. If you know any teenagers, this might not come as a surprise, but research has confirmed that risk-taking peaks during this exact moment in mid-adolescence.

'Skins' wanted to create a new thing by actually casting real teenagers. I think it was very brave of them. They also wanted to give the opportunity to people who didn't go to drama school.

Independent films are where you really get to cut your teeth and have some fun and do the things that mainstream Hollywood doesn't want to do.

If I hear, 'Be afraid of Tehran,' I'm like, 'I'd better go to Tehran.'

I owe a lot to Darren Perry. I don't think I'd be this far this early if it wasn't for him pushing me to run an extra second or showing me a play on film and telling me when I see it, that's the green light to go do it and don't be afraid to take that next step and take chances. That's what the game is about.

If anyone tells you that you're too old to be an entrepreneur or that you have the wrong background, don't listen to them. Go with your gut instincts and pursue your passions.

No studio in Hollywood wanted 'Cold Mountain.' None. No one wanted 'Ripley,' no one wanted 'The English Patient.' That tells you there isn't really an appetite for ambitious movie-making out there.

If anyone ever tells me something doesn't go together, it makes me want to try it.

We were pushing the boundaries a bit of Saturday morning telly and trying new things.

Few are born bold. Even Napoleon had to cultivate the habit on the battlefield, where he knew it was a matter of life and death. In social settings he was awkward and timid, but he overcame this and practice boldness in every part of his life because he saw its tremendous power, how it could literally enlarge a man(even one who, like Napoleon, was in fact conspicuously small).

Einstein said, "A person who has never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Focus on "pulling the plug" on failed ideas more quickly, not on reducing your failure rate.

innovative companies need a wide range of ideas and that success requires a high failure rate.

Pioneers in the development of particular products and industries have been described by Schumpeter as "innovators," those "individuals who are daring, speculative, restless, imaginative and, more pertinently, eager to exploit new inventions.

When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.

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

Tu problema es que tu índice de fracaso es muy bajo. Si quieres aprender a vender tienes que fracasar con más rapidez».

Live a high-volume life. Play full-out. Take risks. Reach high. Don't look back. Be authentic. Be great. "Live to the point of tears