Quotes About Risk-taking

When it comes to putting together a new show, we always push the envelope, and that's part of Motley Crue's legacy.

I'm not interested in re-creating the same blues I love so much. I'm interested in pushing boundaries.

You don't know what the country is ready for unless you're pushing that envelope, and I was told that I couldn't develop 'Will and Grace'.

I'm attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out.

You know, when I put out records that may not work or connect with the audience, it's because I'm pushing myself as an artist creatively, because I'm just bored doing what everyone wants me to do.

One of the things that always was Fall Out Boy was trying new things and kind of pushing ourselves in different directions.

Pushing the envelope, musically speaking, is what needs to be done to rise to the top.

We, as a company, take the most risks in pushing the boundaries on consumer expectations.

I was always pushing the limits, going as far as I could. I would do all kinds of crazy things.

My brothers said I was always the craziest, always pushing buttons.

I'm a risk-taker because I don't have a lot of experience in putting up a business before - I didn't really learn about this in school - but I still choose to do it, especially since I'm now getting good advice from people around me.

When I was 16 years old, I thought that backflips were like the coolest thing. So I spent like months and months of my life like, literally flipping onto my head.

If you have a culture of respect, creativity flows. You create this energy, and then people have more desire to take risks.

I fear nothing. I fly around and do things a guy 6-2 and 240 would not do. That gives me an edge.

I think a lot of acting is having the confidence to be open enough to try things and not be afraid of falling on your face and looking like a fool.

Many Americans abhor paternalism. They think that people should be able to go their own way, even if they end up in a ditch. When they run risks, even foolish ones, it isn't anybody's business that they do.

If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms.

I'm all for trying anything once; otherwise, you end up like David Guetta - reproducing the same formula over and over.

That's one of the reasons I retired. To stick around, the way I was fighting, I would have to start playing it safe. I went out on my shield. That's the way I liked it. I fought that way my whole career. I don't want to bore people my last three or four fights.

Great founders live for chaotic moments.

When the frame's safe, I like to let myself go a bit; play a few more entertaining shots rather than just getting the frame over and done with.

It's like, if someone asks me to do something and it seems like a really exciting project, but I maybe really frightened about it, nine times out of then I'll say yes imminently because then I can worry after I've said yes!

I'm not scared to sing songs. I'm not scared to walk out the front door and make a mistake.

Confidence, capital, and credit fuel entrepreneurship and economic expansion.