Motivational Quotes

Risk

Buyers are graded not only on their successes, but also on their failures. Too many hits means the buyer isn't taking enough chances.

- Wexner, Leslie

Best Quotes about Risk

Life is like a hand of cards. You have to play the hand you're dealt, you can't win by folding, and sometimes you must take chances in order to win.

Conner, Mike

If you are never scared, embarrassed, or hurt, it means you never take chances.

Soul, Julia

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Jong, Erica

Most successful people are people who take risks--calculated risks--but nevertheless, risks.

Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else?

Noble, Alex

All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.

Rohn, Jim

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were--to the very last minute--a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

People who take risks are the people you'll lose against.

Sculley, John

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One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

Gardner, John W.

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You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

Alda, Alan

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He who stays in the valley will never see over the hill.

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The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

Horace

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Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

Ash, Mary Kay

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During the first period of a man's life, the danger is not to take the risk.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

James, William

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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.

Koestler, Arthur

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With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

Lippmann, Walter

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Don't be afraid to go out on a limb.That's where the fruit is.

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Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

Johnson, Jimmy

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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Risk -- If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know how wide it is, he'll jump and six times out of ten he'll make it.

Proverb, Persian

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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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Take calculated risks. This is quite different from being rash.

Patton, George S.

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Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.

Feather, William

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It is true that when we take chances, we stand to lose. But it is also true that we will never win anything if we never even enter the game. Lucky people are aware of the possibility of losing, and indeed they may lose often. But since the chances they take are small, the losses tend to be small. By being willing to accept small losses, they put themselves in position to make large gains.

Gunther, Max

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Buyers are graded not only on their successes, but also on their failures. Too many hits means the buyer isn't taking enough chances.

Wexner, Leslie

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If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.

Ash, Roy

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There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns.

Pilpay

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I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

Lillian Carter

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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

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If you want to stand out, don't be different, be outstanding.

West, Meredith

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It is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause. Who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Be bold. If you are going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.

King, Billie Jean

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Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

Getty, J. Paul

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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.