Quotes About Risk-taking

The person who is willing to say yes to experience is the person who discovers new frontiers.

When you experience a failure as a leader, don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks.

Experiment is actually doing the art. That's the experiment and then you get to experience the experiment.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.

I really believe that entrepreneurship is about being able to face failure, manage failure and succeed after failing.

When you recognize that failing doesn't make you a failure, you give yourself permission to try all sorts of things.

Failure isn't something to be embarrassed about; it's just proof that you're pushing your limits, trying new things, daring to innovate.

In Europe you learn not to fail, and in America you fail to learn. You need failure.

As an entrepreneur, you have to be OK with failure. If you're not failing, you're likely not pushing yourself hard enough.

There are systems that use failure as fuel for improvement, where the cost of failure is small.

The way to succeed is to double your error rate.

I enjoy the fun of failure. It's fun to fail, I kept repeating. It's part of being ambitious; it's part of being creative. If something is worth doing, it's worth doing badly

Since we took to the sky, we have wanted to fly faster and farther. And to do so, we've had to believe in impossible things and we've had to refuse to fear failure.

The ability to fail quietly without having that failure associated with your name/identity allows for more experimentation and limit pushing.

I know it sounds strange - a blind teenager buzzin' round on a motorcycle - but I liked that; that was me. I had always been nervy, and I always had a lot of faith in my ability not to break my neck.

Every great man was thought to be insane before he changed the world. Some never changed the world. They were just insane.

I'm way to adventurous too be considered ordinary.

Take chances, make mistakes, be silly, be imperfect, trust yourself, & follow your heart!

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. Take every risk to explore new ideas and be authentic yet absolutely creative.

My way of thinking is that if you plan everything your life will be boring and who wants a boring life. Live spontaneously.

Try something new. Chances are you'll enjoy it more than you think.

Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.

I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.

Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so 'safe,' and therefore so shrinking and rigid and afraid that it is why so many humans fail. Most middle-aged adults have resigned themselves to failure.