Risk
Definition: Risks: plural noun and third person present. A situation involving
exposure to danger. Expose (someone or something valued) to danger, harm, or loss.
Number of Quotes: 24
By definition, risk-takers often fail. So do morons. In practice it's difficult to sort them out.
Scott Adams
The only risk of failure is promotion.
Scott Adams
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainty.
Francis Bacon
Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only through gambling can we take advantage of them.
Clarence Birdseye
The kinds of people we employ are not afraid of taking risks. If someone mucks up, they
don't get a bollocking from me. They know they've mucked up and they redouble their efforts.
Richard Branson
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Dale Carnegie
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A little blindness is necessary when you undertake risk.
Bill Gates
If businessmen always made the right decisions, business wouldn't be business.
Jean Paul Getty
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
André Gide
I'm not an entrepreneur. I like rules too much and entrepreneurs break rules.
Guy Hands
Don't study the idea to death with experts and committees. Get on with it and see if it works.
Kenneth Iverson
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it... It really is worth fighting
for, being brave for, risking everything for.... and the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
Erica Jong
If we are to be more prosperous we need more millionaires and more bankrupts.
Keith Joseph
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
John F. Kennedy
It is better to be impetuous than circumspect. Experience shows that (fortune) is more often subdued by men who do this than by those who act coldly.
Niccolò Machiavelli
You do not have to be the son of a rich man to be an entrepreneur. Today kids are far more willing to take risks because they've seen high rewards.
Narayana Murthy
In a small company, one person's hunch can be enough to launch a new product. In a
big company, the same concept is likely to be buried in committee for months.
Al Ries
Risk is what an entrepreneur eats for breakfast. It's what she slips into bed with at night. If you
have no appetite for this stuff, or no ability to digest it, then get out of the game right now.
Heather Robertson
To be a leader in this new economy, you have to love risk - which means patterning your
life on the heroic, not on the strategic. Acting boldly is better than acting knowingly.
Harriet Rubin
You can never be an entrepreneur if you're afraid to lose money. It's like being a pilot who is afraid of bad weather.
Peter de Savary
Administrators are cheap and easy to find and cheap to keep. Leaders - risk takers: they are in very short supply. And ones with vision are pure gold.
Raymond W. Smith
I am cautious about going against the herd. I am liable to be trampled on.
George Soros
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