Quotes About Risk-taking

When I talked with David Swensen, Yale's chief investment officer, he told me that "unconventional wisdom is the only way you can succeed." Follow the herd, and you don't have a chance.

Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?

If you want to play the game and win, you've got to play "full out." You've got to be willing to feel stupid, and you've got to be willing to try things that might not work—and if they don't work, be willing to change your approach.

Why not grab life by the shoulders and not give too much of a damn about it?

L'audace—toujours l'audace!

for it is only when a man goes out into the world with the thought that there are heroisms all round him, and with the desire all alive in his heart to follow any which may come within sight of him, that he breaks away as I did from the life he knows, and ventures forth into the wonderful mystic twilight land where lie the great adventures and the great rewards.

I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador — an adventurer, if you want it translated — with all the curiosity, daring, and tenacity characteristic of a man of this sort.

Magari mi troverai ridicola, ma mi disprezzerei se non osassi esserlo mai

it is only when a man goes out into the world with the thought that there are heroisms all round him, and with the desire all alive in his heart to follow any which may come within sight of him, that he breaks away... from the life he knows, and ventures forth into the wonderful mystic twilight land where lie the great adventures and the great rewards.

Había nacido para ser grande, porque era capaz de proyectar lo que otros hombres no se atrevían a llevar a cabo, y de llevar a cabo lo que otros hombres no se atrevían a proyectar. El caso de Lady Sannox

The only selfish life is a timid one.

I've got to be active in life, and it's the same when I'm doing stunts in a movie: I'll do anything.

He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

Be fearless to live life.

Live a fearless life.

Live life daringly.

When Tom Ford asked me to consult for Gucci, I had never consulted in my life. I didn't know what consulting was, and look, we made something amazing.

The man primarily responsible for the Empire State Building was not trained as an architect, city planner, or engineer. He was not in the construction business, nor in the real estate business. His only direct dealings in real estate were of a personal nature—a mansion here and an apartment or summer home there—until he made the momentous decision to build the world's tallest building.

You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.

I also love 'Mr. Fox' and the advice that his bride-to-be sees carved above the door to his house: BE BOLD, BE BOLD. She goes inside, of course, and then she sees more advice: BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BUT NOT TOO BOLD. But she goes through that door, too. The next piece of advice is BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BUT NOT TOO BOLD, LEST THAT YOUR HEART'S BLOOD RUN COLD. I bet you can imagine what she does anyway.

You think you're being difficult, my little sausage? Have I ever told you about the time I drank eight vodka martinis, took all my clothes off in front of a film crew and then broke my manager's nose?

Put a grain of boldness into everything you do.

What would I do where platforms, microphones and screens denied me? That's easy. I'd go to the races.