Just taking risks for risk's sake, that doesn't do it for me. I'm willing to take risks that I think are worth… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
Living is risky business. Every decision, every interaction, every step, every time you get out of bed in the morning, you take… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
I'm experimenting in public. At the design grad schools, these are people sitting around in groups, putting their work on a wall,… — David Carson Copy Share Image
A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
My experience with novice traders is that they trade three to five times too big. They are taking 5 to 10 percent… — Bruce Kovner Copy Share Image
Studies of people who report high well-being in their fifties and sixties indicate that they have lived lives that involved personal risks.… — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
Nobody can really guarantee the future. The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our… — Henry Ford II Copy Share Image
“Hastra handed him a blanket. "Shouldn't you take off her knives?" "There's not enough tonic in the world to risk it," said… — V.E. Schwab Copy Share Image
I'm a freestyle creative entrepreneur. Not a businessman. I like to create ventures in which creativity stands at the centre. — Lapo Elkann Copy Share Image
Love is the seed of all hope. It is the enticement to trust, to risk, to try, to go on.... — Gloria Gaither Copy Share Image
If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Peace is only possible when one of the warring sides takes the first step, the hazardous initiative, the risk of opening up… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
War is a serious game in which a man risks his reputation, his troops, and his country. A sensible man will search… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Why does one want to walk wings? Why force one's body from a plane to make a parachute jump? Why should man… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
None of the pictures I take a risk in cost a lot, so it doesn't take much for them to turn a… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I believe that a creative career is only as good as the risks that you take with it. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
It's actually a relatively small number of people that really are those risk takers, and a relatively small number of people that… — Steve Case Copy Share Image
I think if you were to really peek under the hood of what got Aerosmith back again for our second life in… — Steven Tyler Copy Share Image
I now say that the world has the technology - either available or well advanced in the research pipeline - to feed… — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
Take risks ... be willing to put your mind and your spirit, your time and your energy, your stomach and your emotions… — Jim Lehrer Copy Share Image
I try to master every facet of a character in order to build a safety net for myself, so I can go… — Jim Parsons Copy Share Image
“Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before... to test yout limits... to break through barriers. And… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Wall Street sometimes gets confused between risk and uncertainty, and you can profit handsomely from that confusion. The low-risk, high-uncertainty [situation] gives… — Mohnish Pabrai Copy Share Image
We are young, but We already know that in life's great game those who are most unhappy are those who haven't taken… — Guillaume Musso Copy Share Image
My definition of success is doing what you love. I feel many people do things because they feel they have to, and… — Tony Hawk Copy Share Image
Like Magellan, let us find our islands To die in, far from home, from anywhere Familiar. Let us risk the wildest places,… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
We're always hearing about risk-takers whose risks paid off, but they are no braver than those whose risks end in ridicule. — Frank Skinner Copy Share Image
From the law firm's perspective, billing by the hour has a certain appeal: it shifts risk from the firm to the client… — Robert Pozen Copy Share Image
Sometimes we can offer a cure, sometimes only a salve, sometimes not even that. But whatever we can offer, our interventions, and… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
I'm of the mind that life is a risk. Every time you leave your house it's a risk, and I see no… — Thomas Jane Copy Share Image
If you're turned away from one road, there's always another--filled with risk but also adventure. Roads less taken are always the most… — Max Allan Collins Copy Share Image
If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you… — Rosalynn Carter Copy Share Image
But I dare not think too far into the future on the risk that I'll miss the present. — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
Fear stops a lot of people. Fear of failure, of the unknown, of risk. And it masks itself as procrastination. — Lisa Anderson Copy Share Image
True strategy is about placing bets and making hard choices under conditions of uncertainty, not about assuming plans can remove risk. — Will Evans Copy Share Image
“There’s too much risk in loving,’ the young boy said, ‘no,’ said the old man, ‘there’s too much risk in not.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
Managers are not confronted with problems that are independent of each other, but with dynamic situations that consist of complex systems of… — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share Image