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Quotes About Risk-taking

A taste for adventure is by no means a masculine monopoly.
~ Lloyd Alexander
Miss Vesper Holly has the digestive talents of a goat and the mind of a chess master. She is familiar with half a dozen languages and can swear fluently in all of them. She understands the use of a slide rule but prefers doing calculations in her head. She does not hesitate to risk life and limb- mine as well as her own. No doubt she has other qualities as yet undiscovered. I hope not.
~ Lloyd Alexander
eat the meat of strange animals before I died.
~ Louis L'Amour
I don't like to doze by the fire. I like adventures, and I'm going to find some.
~ Louisa May Alcott
I don't want to fear life -- I want to live it.
~ Roxanne St. Claire
Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not to suffer.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
If people aren't calling you crazy, you aren't thinking big enough.
~ Richard Branson
Successful people see an opportunity and they GO for it. They play bigger and go deeper into the circles of success. They don't hold back.
~ Loral Langemeier
'Fail hard, fail fast, fail often. It's the key to success.' This one I learned from experience!
~ Reshma Saujani
Put a grain of boldness into everything you do.
~ Baltasar Gracian
Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure.
~ Thomas Watson, Jr.
If anybody laughs at your idea, view it as a sign of potential success!
~ Jim Rogers
A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.
~ Bryant McGill
To be a success in business, be daring, be first, be different.
~ Kenny Marchant
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.
~ J. Paul Getty
Do you want to succeed? Then, double you rate of failure. Success lies on the far side of failure.
~ Thomas J. Watson
We are always chasing after things that other companies won't touch. That is a big secret to our success.
~ Norio Ohga
Creatives fail and the really good ones fail often.
~ Steven Kotler
You go for it. All the stops are out. Caution is to the wind, and you're battling with everything you have. That's the real fun of the game.
~ Dan Dierdorf
The reason so many people fail to achieve success is because they fail to fail enough times.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
Success comes from delegating, risk-taking and having a good TEAM!
~ Richard Branson
Going into business for yourself, becoming an entrepreneur, is the modern-day equivalent of pioneering on the old frontier.
~ Paula Nelson
The secret of success lies in this simple sentence: Why not?
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The truth is, Helene was always the troublemaker. She had that bad-girl twinkle in her eye, and she always dragged Shelby along, whether it was the time they were caught shoplifting makeup at the Walt Whitman Mall or the time they took the Long Island Rail Road into Manhattan and didn't come home till two a.m.
~ Alice Hoffman