Risk taking Quotes
"Learn from failure. If you are an entrepreneur and your first venture wasn’t a success, welcome to the club!"
"The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything."
"You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen."
"I would rather die of passion than of boredom."
"Most decisions should probably be made with somewhere around 70% of the information you wish you had. If you wait for 90%, in most cases, you’re probably being slow."
"Taking on a challenge is a lot like riding a horse, isn't it? If you're comfortable while you're doing it, you're probably doing it wrong."
"Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to."
"Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah… it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you."
"You’ve got to take risks if you’re going to succeed. I would much rather ask forgiveness than permission."
"The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world."
"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."
"It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home."
"Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn’t have the courage to say yes” to life?"
"Entrepreneurship is like eating glass and walking on hot coals at the same time."
"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?"