Quotes About Risk-taking

I rely far more on gut instinct than researching huge amounts of statistics.

It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.

Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.

I'm fundamentally a positive person. Otherwise, I wouldn't be doing some of the insane movies that I do.

To hell with the rules. I'm going for the unknown.

I've always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that's where great art and music happens.

We all have to open our minds, stretch forth, take chances and venture out musically to try and arrive at something new and different.

A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they're stuck in that safe place.

I have followed my heart my whole life - the crazy kid, a contrarian by nature, and I've been in trouble in points in my career.

Nintendo's philosophy is never to go the easy path; it's always to challenge ourselves and try to do something new.

My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.

When I became leader, I made very clear I was not going to choose the easy life. I have always taken risks. I don't like comfort-zone politics.

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

I'm always doing things I can't do. That's how I get to do them.

Speed to fail should be every entrepreneur's motto. When you finally find the one idea that can't be killed, go with it.

It's called entrepreneurSHIP, not entrepreneurSTAY. Don't wait. Just ship.

If you brave in life, you get the best of life.

When you are not afraid to fail, you will always win.

Harness the Power of Accelerated Failure - the faster you fail, the faster you succeed.

Encourage experimentation. People always have ideas that they have been wishing they had the chance to try, and they naturally generate solutions to problems they've been living with. What they seldom do, without encouragement and support, is try their ideas. Too often experimentation seems to people a risky undertaking that requires someone else's blessing. Give it yours.

The genius of American business lies in risk-taking, creativity, invention, and ambition.

It's how creativity works. Especially in humans. For every good idea, ten thousand idiotic ones must first be posed, sifted, tried out, and discarded. A mind that's afraid to toy with the ridiculous will never come up with the brilliantly original.

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

with jazz and folk musicians, everything was expected to be thrown into the crucible of a gig to see if it sank, floated, or maybe even flew.