A risk-taking environment starts at the top of a corporation. If the CEO doesn't have this spirit, chances are you won't find… — Mary Kay Ash Copy Share Image
“People who are not enjoying themselves very much always most dislike risking their lives.” — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
There really have only ever been a few people in each generation who step out, are willing to put themselves on the… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
The Venturer is one who keeps his eye on the hedgerows and wayside groves and meadows while he travels the road to… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
“To live, to TRULY live, we must be willing to RISK. To be nothing in order to find everything. To leap before… — Mandy Hale Copy Share Image
When a man marries he takes a bigger risk than the woman, because she can march out with his kids, his money,… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
There is a real risk of a parliament dominated completely by elected PAP MPs. Is that a good outcome for Singapore? I… — Pritam Singh Copy Share Image
I feel that when you care about your music, taking risks is something you should do to keep things exciting. — Drake Copy Share Image
My record was so bad that I was first rejected by the Peace Corps as a poor risk and possible troublemaker and… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
When an executive walked on our floor, it was at their own risk. As far as what others thought of working for… — Joe Murray Copy Share Image
Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Asset managers have different approaches, and I don't wish to suggest there is only one way to run money. There are many… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Love in truth-caritas in veritate-is a great challenge for the Church in a world that is becoming progressively and pervasively globalized. The… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The Germans are often too bureaucratic, too fixated on rules and not risk-oriented enough. And some of their officials have the feeling… — Charles Landry Copy Share Image
There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long, underestimate the risks, want to do too… — Timothy Geithner Copy Share Image
I think the potential for the program at the risk of sounding self-serving is large, some would say even limitless, so I'm… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There isn't an entrepreneur or a scientific pioneer who hasn't had failures. And if we don't rear children who are comfortable taking… — Roberta Michnick Golinkoff Copy Share Image
“Entrepreneurs often underestimate costs and overestimate rewards. But the fact that they estimate & still take action sets them apart from peers.” — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
You can not achieve success without the risk of failure. If you are not afraid to fail, than you have a chance,… — Paul Heyman Copy Share Image
Our arms must be mighty ... ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act. — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
With all the precautions and risks that accompany sex today, it sounds about as much fun as walking through a minefield. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Somebody must take a chance. There are monkeys who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in trees… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
When people believe that every move they make is going to affect their compensation, they tend to get risk averse. — Teresa Amabile Copy Share Image
The greatest risk in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing and is nothing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The greatest risk in giving our government any power to control our speech is that it would then have a vehicle to… — Kat Timpf Copy Share Image
The problem with certainty is that it is static; it can do little but endlessly reassert itself. Uncertainty, by contrast, is full… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
The risk of just one terrorist with just one nuclear weapon is a risk we simply cannot afford to take. — John O. Brennan Copy Share Image
I would say Colin Jost is Kanye West because he takes like the creative risk a lot of times, whereas I'm like,… — Michael Che Copy Share Image
“When risk is a challenge, fear becomes a compass—literally pointing people in the direction they need to go next” — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
The new rebels might be artists willing to risk the yawn, the rolled eyes, the cool smile, the nudged ribs, the parody… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Not having a contingency plan or never performing risk analysis and mitigation activities is like not having an insurance plan for yourself.” — Pooja Agnihotri Copy Share Image
“Stepping out there is easy if you don't have anything to risk." "Life's a risk. It's what you make of it that… — Trice Hickman Copy Share Image
“One of the main reasons people fail to reach their full potential is because they are unwilling to risk anything.” — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
This is how a man looks when he's deciding that the risk of death is better than the risk of change. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Too often, people forget the basic fact of life: all those good things we enjoy come from the ache in [our] backs… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
As a war correspondent, you have to weigh the risk you run against the story you can get. — Asne Seierstad Copy Share Image
Shame is, hands down, the most uncomfortable feeling. And, because it produces continuous amounts of inflammatory chemicals in the body, it is… — Christiane Northrup Copy Share Image
Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back. — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image