Quotes About Risk-taking

The writer's life requires courage, patience, empathy, openness. It requires the ability to be alone with oneself. Gentle with oneself. To be disciplined, and at the same time, take risks.

If one person embodies this approach to work and life—the apex predator of the anticipated regret food chain—that person is Jeff Bezos. He's one of the richest people in the world, thanks to founding Amazon, one of the largest companies on the planet. He owns The Washington Post. He visits outer space. Yet in the domain of our most misunderstood emotion, he is best known for a concept that he calls the "Regret Minimization Framework.

Remember your Abraham Maslow and your Viktor Frankl. Bet your business on it.

We need to look to our laurels a bit with television in this country. I don't think enough risks are being taken in drama television in the U.K., and I think a lot of programme makers are underestimating the intelligence of the viewing public, basing it all on ratings.

Don't be afraid of developing a contrarian viewpoint on what type of person is perfect for your company as CTO and how you're going to find that person.

I founded Eventbrite when I was 25 and had exactly five professional years under my belt. Perspective was lacking; idealistic views were not. I really had no idea what I was getting myself into, and I'm beyond thrilled I took the leap from a comfortable corporate career into the abyss of founder-hood and entrepreneurship.

When I was about ten, I was very impressed by the way Tarzan could swing through the trees from vine to vine. No one ever told me, 'Don't try this at home.'

Nowadays people talk about PayPal's founders as prescient geniuses who would inevitably change the world. It was, however, not so obvious that PayPal would taste its first major success by helping people sell Beanie Babies on eBay. But they had a vision, a hope, and the perseverance to try multiple iterations until they got it right.

Entrepreneurship, to me, means that you're a psychopath. The world doesn't work in the way you want it to, and you have a vision for how it should work. Unlike everyone else, this isn't OK with you. You have to go out, against every possible odd, and do something about it. That's what makes you crazy.

People have this vision of me as a conservative person, but I'm actually quite adventurous.

Imagine the world of mobile based on Nokia and Motorola if Apple had not been restarted by a missionary entrepreneur named Steve Jobs who cared more for his vision than being tactical and financial.

Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.

Uncle Stash said you didn't have to be crazy to to do something stupid, just young.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

For publishers are not just employers and financial risk-takers: they are also cultural mediators and arbitrators of quality and taste.

Management expert Tom Peters gives a perspective on this. He suggests, "Don't rock the boat. Sink it and start over." If you desire to be creative and do something really innovative, that's sometimes what it takes. You must destroy the old to create something new. You cannot allow yourself to be paralyzed by the idea of change.

There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who left well enough alone.

Leadership expert Peter Drucker says, "The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try. I would never promote to a top-level job a man who was not making mistakes . . . otherwise he is sure to be mediocre." Mistakes really do pave the road to achievement.

El escritor sobre asuntos de negocios Jim Zabloski escribe: Contrario a la creencia popular, en el mundo de los negocios yo creo que el fracaso es una necesidad. Si no comete errores a lo menos cinco veces en el día, es probable que no esté haciendo lo suficiente. Mientras más hace, más falla. Mientras más falla, más aprende. Mientras más aprende, mejores resultados. Aquí, la palabra operativa es aprender.

Trust that little voice in your head that says Wouldnt it be interesting if..; And then do it.

Be wise enough not to be reckless, but brave enough to take great risks.

Right or wrong has never stop me from trying anything.

Another word for creativity is courage.

Maybe the museum [of Arts and Design ]needs to follow the advice of its acronym and not be afraid to go a little M.A.D.