Quotes About Risk-taking

If people don't laugh at you and your ideas at least once a week, you're not pushing the envelope.

leadership is all about getting good at being uncomfortable. It's about running toward, not away from, the things that intimidate and frighten you. And leadership is about trying new things.

do small things well each day. Develop your intellectual base a little bit more. Be more loving. Be more innovative. Take more risks. Develop deeper relationships.

Bravery is the solution to regret.

Bundy sternly tool his fellow endowment fund managers to task - not for being too bold, but for being insufficiently so: We have the preliminary impression that over the long run caution has cost our colleges and universities much more than imprudence or excessive risk-taking.

It's difficult to get your creative juices flowing if you're always being practical, following rules, afraid to make mistakes, not looking into outside areas, or under the influence of any of the other mental locks.

Washington must have seen that Hamilton, for all his brains and daring, sometimes lacked judgment and had to be supervised carefully.

IBM pioneer Thomas Watson said, "If you want to succeed, double your failure rate." I

The idea of entrepreneurship applies as much in politics, religion, society and the arts as it does in business.

The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen if you compromise away the entire process.

Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you.

I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.

I skated like it's a sport, went for everthing and just gave it my best shot. It turned out freat. I had nothing to lose. You might be the best in your heart, but not in other people's sight.

I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

If experience was so important, we'd never have had anyone walk on the moon.

Being guided by your own thoughts and abilities, living out there on the high wire and being rewarded for it: That was the Chicago way. Nothing else counted. If it were sensational enough, whether a scientific breakthrough, a rousing new style of music, or an underworld murder, it would be celebrated.

Within the heart of every boy is an adventurer.

Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage.

Trust that little voice in your head that says "Wouldn't it be interesting if..." And then do it.

If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. Otherwise, you'll just be rearranging furniture in rooms you've already been in.

To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

The doctors told me I'd be fine if I play only golf and tennis doubles for the rest of my life. But I dive. I dogsled. I trek. I guess I'll have surgery.