Quotes About Risk-taking

If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted

Hunter didn't have to seek out adventure, he was adventure.

I think a lot of brands are scared to put out wild shades, but I love that.

Britain and the US remain the Wild West for ideas, where pioneers push each other towards ever greater heights in the white heat of free enterprise. No one knows their place, no one fears failure and no one is ashamed of success.

Life is about daring to carry out your ideas. And for me, it always comes back to the wilderness, nature, mountains.

I want adventure in my life. I want to do things I haven't done before. These Hollywood people are so careful of their image and looking right, but there's a wildness when I come into the photographs. I just want to wade through rivers, climb mountains.

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.

Rob Kalin, Etsy's founder, never finished college. Evan Williams, Biz Stone, Jack Dorsey - the founders of Twitter - are not college graduates. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder, is another dropout. And, of course, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.

Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.

The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.

When you choose your fields of labor go where nobody else is willing to go.

Trump is the first president in a generation who is willing to take political risks to secure our border.

I go out there and live or die by the sword and I'm willing to put the work in that needs to be to obtain the goal that I set out to do.

I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn't work. If you're going to invent, it means you're going to experiment, and if you're going to experiment, you're going to fail, and if you're going to fail, you have to think long term.

One of the reasons microcomputers progressed so fast is people are willing to accept crashes. It's faster to build something and try it, even if it means you'll have to rebuild later... If you spent too much time building and massaging one vehicle, you don't learn anything.

Customers are willing to try new things, and if you can survive, you will have fewer competitors. It's like entering the eye of the storm. As long as you are strong enough to survive, you can end up in still water by yourself.

All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think.

I guess I have a certain willingness for audacity.

What we want in students is creativity and a willingness to fail. I always say to students, 'If you've never at some point stayed up all night talking to your new boyfriend about the meaning of life instead of preparing for the test, then you're not really an intellectual.'

It seems the best approach for any venture is a combo platter - Japan's quality-consciousness paired with America's willingness to experiment and (sometimes) fail.

If you're too methodical, too fearful, you're not going to win. But the clever thing is to make the calculation correctly about where and when to go over the top. You've got to know when to push it and when to come back.

In comedy, you have to be unafraid to hang from the tree branch naked in the high wind and you have to be absolutely unafraid to look ridiculous and silly.

Environmental communicators are too cautious. I throw caution to the wind.

I love doing all of my own stunts. Anything. Even if they are telling me, 'No, no, no! You can't do that!' I'll do it. Like crashing my car through the gate, climbing up the building, kicking in a window... I love doing all of that stuff.