Quotes About Risk-taking

Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.

I believe anybody who is not afraid to fail is a winner.

You can look at any industry and sector and then figure out how high is your glass ceiling. Do you want to diversify or do you want to penetrate the ceiling? Because the ones who break the glass ceiling are going to be big-time winners, but it will be a longer-term view on things and requires a lot more courage, a lot more guts.

Be thankful for all successes, lose your ego, take risks, fail fast, and if you don't absolutely love what you do, run!

Thanks to 'It,' you're going to see the studios take a lot more chances on a very specific vision. An R-rated horror film about children being eaten by a monster that lives in a sewer is not normally something that a studio would throw their weight behind. But we've seen the success of it, which props everyone up.

In the history of pop music, a lot of great records cost an enormous amount of money. There used to be a time where people that had means to experiment would do it, you know?

In the history of comics and movies and music too, it's always when things are at their bottomed-out, either creatively or financially, there's more chance-taking going on.

Remember, I'm someone who got fired from Disney and eight days later started the first studio in 65 years with two of the most brilliant, successful people in the history of the entertainment business, doing something everyone said was somewhere between improbable and impossible. I'm afraid that's exactly what I love doing.

I would be fooling myself if I thought I would succeed as an entrepreneur. Maybe my base as a theatre artiste gave me the confidence as that's when you start feeling you can do something on your own.

For men who prided themselves on being disciples of reason, their drive to live on the edge seemd inexplicable, unless they believed that becoming the richest would certify them as also being the smartest.

Years ago when I was still in the field we ad this technique for dealing with problems we weren't exactly sure how to solve. We called it S-W-A-G." "What's that stand for?" "Scientific-Wild-Ass-Guess..

Gilbert darling, don't let's ever be afraid of things. It's such dreadful slavery. Let's be daring and adventurous and expectant.

innovators need to be disagreeable. By disagreeable, I don't mean obnoxious or unpleasant. I mean that on that fifth dimension of the Big Five personality inventory, "agreeableness," they tend to be on the far end of the continuum. They are people willing to take social risks—to do things that others might disapprove of.

If you are going to do something truly innovative, you have to be someone who does not value social approval. You can't need social approval to go forward.

Those who are acquainted with failure acquire the unique ability to dare without fear of it.

Pessimists never go on a voyage of discovery, equally so they never leave the shoreline in search of new horizons.

When we give ourselves permission to fail..we at the same time, give ourselves permission to excel.

As an Odd-Fish, it is not my job to be right, ' said Sir Oort. 'It is my job to be wrong in new and exciting ways.

Fail early, fail often.

If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems

We need people who push boundaries rather than retreat inside them.

Failure comes from fear. Success comes from boldness and persistence.

Being an entrepreneur cannot be defined by your successes until it has been built by your failures.

Grace Hopper: It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.