Quotes About Risk-taking

The passion I have for what could be viewed as a futile pursuit has made me strong, and it is this that gives me the confidence required to lead a self-determined life.

A corporation ages like a person. As the years go by and the founders die off, making way for the bureaucrats of the second and third generations, the ecstatic, risk-taking, just-for-the-hell-of-it spirit that built the company gives way to a comfortable middle age.

Once we are willing to accept that anything worth doing might even be worth doing badly our options widen.

Typically, the recovering shadow artist will use these early efforts to discourage continued exploration. To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. JOSEPH CHILTON PEARCE

I can't believe you just did that,' Charlie marvelled. 'You've broken more college rules in five minutes than I've managed in a month.

it takes someone brave to do what everyone else is afraid to do first.

Never underestimate the capacity of noble young men to do incredibly foolish things for perfectly good reasons.

A man who does not make mistakes does not make anything

The Ed Hardy man is confident with a strong sense of personal style. He is not afraid to be seen and take risks. He enjoys comfort and flexible style, yet he wants to stand apart from the crowd.

The writer who cannot sometimes throw away a thought about which another man would have written dissertations, without worry whether or not the reader will find it, will never become a great writer.

A fearless man thrives on far horizons.

Streaking. That's a very stupid young man thing to do. There is something ruder I can't mention. Celebs On Sunday, you're kinda clean, aren't you? Hmm. Maybe we should stick to streaking.

I've always been an entrepreneur, but it's never been about the money. I like a challenge, the harder the better.

We don't make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.

Decline III, I funded myself, from the studio money. That, and I sold a lot of drugs. Kidding. Don't print that.

I realized why I need to start a new company. Not for the money. Not because I'm 'bored'. But because a company is a laboratory to try your ideas.

What differentiates us from other money managers with a similar style is that we're comfortable with new lows.

The last time money left the art world, intrepid types maxed out their credit cards and opened galleries, and a few of them have become the best in the world.

Fearlessness is the mother of reinvention.

What's life without a little risk?

The best way to accomplish serious design ... is to be totally and completely unqualified for the job.

It isn't enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

We all have talents that, sometimes, we never quite fulfill. We're all scared, deep down, but maybe we just need to lay it on the line and explore our abilities and just not be afraid of failing.