Quotes About Risk-taking

I've flown in an international balloon race. I've piloted my own plane. I've ridden to the hounds. I've done a lot of exciting things.

It feels great that with the film choices I have been making have been quite radical and different. I am glad they are commercially working.

I would say, as an entrepreneur everything you do - every action you take in product development, in marketing, every conversation you have, everything you do - is an experiment. If you can conceptualize your work not as building features, not as launching campaigns, but as running experiments, you can get radically more done with less effort.

Svitolina moves a little bit better than Ostapenko but Ostapenko goes for it a little earlier in the rallies. The way she plays she can take you out of the equation.

It takes someone like Ram Gopal Varma to change the norms, bend the rules, shake convention, and come up with something like 'Road.'

I didn't have a business degree. I didn't have experience to work in somebody else's office. I never built or ran a department. So I was on this journey, and when the time came to make a decision, I was just going with my gut.

When I was 33 years old, I ran for United States Congress in New York City. I lost miserably.

I'm willing to go further than other people on camera.

I knew how to sell. I felt confident I could run a business. I was willing to outwork anyone. I wasn't afraid to live like a student on next to nothing. So that meant I had absolutely nothing to lose and everything to gain.

I'm a ready-shoot-aim kind of gal.

I was always the guy who jumped off the roof of the garage, who could climb up the facade of a building.

Loosen your girdle and let er fly!

I've been lucky enough to meet a lot of fantastic people, from royalty to rock stars. I've also been known to be a bit of a daredevil, so I've tried to explore extreme travel and adventure - scuba-diving in an arctic glacier and camping in the Himalayas.

I am glad that we can make bold films, different films within the commercial market and still do well.

We love experimentation. That's where the gold nuggets come from.

A film like 'Good Night And Good Luck,' you make that for $7 million because you know it's a black-and-white film, and it's not an easy sell. If you make it for $7 million, then everybody can have a chance to make a little bit of money, and you get to make the film you want to make.

And even in circumstances less critical, women were almost always welcomed in new enterprises that hadn't yet become either prestigious or profitable—whether it was early radio or early cattle drives.

I am not up there by chance. I am there by choice. And I know the wire. And I know my limits. And I am a madman of details.

My parents were intelligent and encouraging, but at the same time, they were displeased at me becoming a wandering troubadour and wire walker.

I am the poet of the high wire - I never do stunts; I do theatrical performances.

I've never really had a fear of heights; in fact, I love being up high, so hanging from wires high above everyone's head has always sort of felt natural for me.

From my standpoint, we ought to be talking about... how do you make Wisconsin a more attractive place for risk-taking, business investment, business expansion.

Stay hungry. Stay foolish. I've always wished that for myself.

Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.