Risk Quote by Sumoreads

One misconception is that entrepreneurs love risk. Actually, we all want things to go as we expect. What you need is a blind optimism…

— Drew Houston

One of the major biases in risky decision making is optimism. Optimism is a source of high-risk thinking.

— Daniel Kahneman

I think that sometimes people are frightened to take the risk of entrepreneurship.

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Entrepreneurs take measured risks, not hopeless gambles.

— Charlie Kirk

Entrepreneurs are always super optimistic. If they weren't they wouldn't be entrepreneurs.

— Heidi Roizen

The entrepreneurial mind-set is that risk is the heightened probability that there is a big range of possible outcomes.

— Heidi Roizen

The most important and visible outcropping of the action bias in excellent companies is their willingness to try things out, to experiment. If you…

— Tom Peters

It's human nature to be optimistic. Any fool can enter a market, it takes talent to exit consistently and profitably.

— Jeff Cooper

Entrepreneurship is “risky” mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.

— Peter Drucker

History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism. Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the…

— Alan Greenspan

One reason why entrepreneurs are admired is that they often take on a degree of risk in launching a new business.

— Andrew Yang

“Many entrepreneurs take plenty of risks—but those are generally the failed entrepreneurs, not the success stories.”47”

— Adam M. Grant