#Risk Quotes

“He is not worthy of the honey-comb, that shuns the hives because the bees have stings.”

“Men that hazard allDo it in hope of fair advantages:A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.”

“Were it goodTo set the exact wealth of all our statesAll at one cast? to set so rich a mainOn the nice hazard of one doubtful hour?It were not good.”

“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”

“There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. (Act 1, scene 4)”

“The walking of Man is falling forwards.”

“Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's vision of the future”

“That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.”

“To be direct and honest is not safe.”

“Blame is safer than praise”

“I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble.”

“Great success always comes at the risk of enormous failure.”

“We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?”

“How could you reach the pearl by only looking at the sea? If you seek the pearl, be a diver: the diver needs several qualities: he must trust his rope and his life to the Friend's hand, he must stop breathing, and he must jump.”

“Run from what's comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I'll be mad.”

“You must put your head into the lion's mouth if the performance is to be a success.”

“We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.”

“Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being.”

“Here life itself, life at its best and healthiest, awaits the caprice of the bullet. Let us see the development of the day. All else may stand over, perhaps for ever. Existence is never so sweet as when it is at hazard.”

“The is always much to be said for not attempting more than you can do and for making a certainty of what you try. But this principle, like others in life and war, has it exceptions.”

“Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.”

“Better to dare mighty things and fail than to live in a grey twilight where there is neither victory nor defeat.”

“A non-doer is very often a critic-that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It's easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change.”

“The 3 C's of Life: Choices, Chances and Changes.You must make a choice to take a chance or you will never change.”

“In time of war, soldiers, however sensible, care a great deal more on some occasions about slaking their thirst than about the danger of enteric fever. Better known as typhoid, the disease is often spread by drinking contaminated water.”

“Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.”

“There was a man who sold a hyena skin while the beast still lived and who was killed in hunting it.”

“To try to be safe everywhere is to be strong nowhere.”

“If you want to discover new oceans, you must first have the courage to leave shore.”

“I would rather train someone and lose them, than not train them and keep them”

“Boats in the harbor are safe but that is not what they are meant for.”

“Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.”

“Victory is only wrested by running risks.”

“Those who won't take a chance don't have a chance.”

“First, imagine taking the potentially regret - producing path of inaction. Then imagine what the very best outcome would be were you to take this risk. By picturing both scenarios in advance, you can avoid the regret of what might have been.”

“One reason people never attempt new things is their fear of failure.”

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

“It is not the return on my investment that I am concerned about; it's the return of my investment”

“You have to run risks. There are no certainties in war. There is a precipice on either side of you - a precipice of caution and a precipice of over-daring.”

“Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.”

“The average American thinks billionaire investors are going to be right based on some talking head. They invest and they have no backup plan. Americans think these guys are giant risk-takers. The truth is they believe in taking as little risk as humanly possible, for the maximum amount of upside. They're looking for that spread of disproportionate risk-reward.”

“Most everybody thinks that if I want to get big rewards I need to take huge risks. But if you keep thinking that, you're gonna be broke.”

“People should be more concerned with the return of their principal than the return on their principal.”

“If you're in a card game and you can't figure out who the patsy is, you're it.”

“I'm not so much interested in the return ON my money as I am in the return OF my money.”

“Ships are but boards, sailors but men; there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves, I mean pirates, and thenthere is the peril of waters, winds, and rocks.”

“If at first you do succeed, quit trying on investing.”

“There's nothing inappropriate about having debt in America. It's what helped us grow over time. And it's when debt gets out of control that you worry.”

“Fear of Failure becomes Fear of Success for those who Never Try Anything New.”

“The dumbest reason in the world to buy a stock is because it's going up.”