If you’re not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.
Ray Kroc
If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.
Arthur Koestler
This country [America] was not built by men who relied on somebody else to take care of them. It was built by men who relied on themselves, who dared to shape their own lives, who had enough courage to blaze new trails - enough confidence in themselves to take the necessary risks.
J. Ollie Edmunds
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
David Lloyd George
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
Andre Gide
No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his body, to risk his well-being, to risk his life, in a great cause.
Theodore Roosevelt
The greatest risk in life is to wait for and depend upon others for your own security.
Denis Waitley
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
Joaquin Setanti
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Walter Anderson
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances.
Brian Tracy
The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Dale Carnegie
Most people wait until everything is just right before they do anything. They refuse to go out on a limb where the fruit is. They refuse to bet on themselves.
Zig Ziglar
Those who wait until all the lights are on green before starting will never leave home.
Zig Ziglar
Procrastination in the name of reducing risk actually increases risk.
Colin Powell
You should never share your goals with anyone unless you know they not only believe you can reach the goals but they want you to reach them. Others decide not to commit their goals to paper so if they don't quite "make it," they will have the built-in explanation that they didn't really fail because they never set those goals. This is a safer and even a "no risk" approach for them that guarantees they will not reach a fraction of their potential.
Zig Ziglar
If you wait until all the lights are "green" before you leave home, you'll never get started on your trip to the top.
Zig Ziglar
Too much caution is bad for you. It is usually wiser to stand up to a scary-seeming experience and walk right into it, risking the bruises or hard knocks. You are likely to find it is not as tough as you had thought. Or you may find it plenty tough, but also discover you have what it takes to handle it.
Norman Vincent Peale
Doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without immediate risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.
Thomas Watson Jr.
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 Fitzgerald Kennedy
The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.
Napoleon Hill
People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail.
Napoleon Hill
And I honor the man who is willing to sink
James Russell Lowell
Half his present repute for the freedom to think,
And, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak,
Will risk t' other half for the freedom to speak.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
George Patton
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
Peter Drucker
To accomplish a great task, you must step out in faith and have complete confidence that your next step will soon become clear to you.
Brian Tracy
All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.
Niccolò Machiavelli
If you’re never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.
Julia Sorel
Over the years, a number of very smart people have learned the hard way that a long string of impressive numbers multiplied by a single zero always equals zero.
Warren Buffett
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