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• Orson Welles was a force of nature, who just came in and wiped the slate clean. And Citizen Kane is the greatest risk-taking of all time in film. I don’t think anything had even seen anything quite like it. The photography was also unlike anything we’d seen. The odd coldness of the filmmaker towards the character reflects his own egomania and power, and yet a powerful empathy for all of them--it’s very interesting. It still holds up, and it’s still shocking. It takes storytelling and throws it up in the air.

  Martin Scorsese

  Photography, Powerful, Character

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• All growth, including political growth, is the result of risk-taking.

  Jude Wanniski

  Political, Risk, Growth

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• Fear is the single biggest barrier to creativity. Unless we're brave enough to risk looking foolish, we'll inevitably find ourselves sticking to the status quo. That fear is disabling, One of the things we need to do as business leaders is build and nurture cultures that encourage responsible risk taking so making mistakes is OK.

  Josh Linkner

  Mistake, Creativity, Leader

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• I'm always begging people like James Brooks and Cameron Crowe to come to screenings, to see what they make of it, and they're always ridiculously helpful. They also keep me brave enough to commit to what I'm trying to do. They can be great cheerleaders for risk-taking.

  Judd Apatow

  People, Brave, Risk

  "Judd Apatow Talks This Is 40, Screening His Films for Cameron Crowe and James L. Brooks, Deleted Scenes, Anchorman 2, Girls, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 18, 2012.

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• We can choose who we bring into our lives. We can choose who will reinforce our risk taking.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Risk, Our Lives

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• For me, it's about risk taking, taking things in new directions. Because every single time, no matter how much you learn, you can never say, "Okay, I did the hardest thing I ever did. I'm prepared now. Now it's going to be easy." Of course it's not easy.

  David Copperfield

  Risk, Matter, Easy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In life, if you don't risk anything, you risk everything.

  John Spence

  Strong Women, Hippie, Thinking

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• I think people are much more concerned about money now. There aren't the big advances of the past. You feel the sense of nervousness about the book industry. It's not like before. Not that I knew very much about what it was like because I was a newcomer to it, but I get that feeling that people are more conservative in their book choices and what they are going to publish and what's a sure sell. As opposed to - just like in the economy - a sense of luxury and sense of risk taking ten years ago.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Book, Thinking, Past

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• Sometimes you find that there is better material in small and more independent movies. There's more risk-taking.

  Nick Stahl

  Movie, Independent, Risk

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Most innovators are successful to the extent to which they define risks and confine them.

  Peter Drucker

  Successful, Risk, Innovators

  Peter Drucker (2014). “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, p.171, Routledge

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• Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Errors, Risk, Atmosphere

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I do have confidence that we're gonna be able to get it right. But it's not gonna be overnight. And there's no silver bullets to this. The fact of the matter is, is that we are suffering from a massive hangover from a binge of risk taking.

  Barack Obama

  Hangover, Risk, Suffering

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The only role other than paying their taxes, whatever those are, the only role for philanthropy broadly - of which the rich should give disproportionately - the more, the better - and I think there is a positive trend in that direction - there are certain risk-taking things, like trying out a new type of charter school or funding a new kind of medicine.

  Bill Gates

  School, Thinking, Medicine

  "THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world". Interview with Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2016.

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• Independent film making is very collaborative. You feel like it's you, the director and other actors and you really feel like you have the final say. When you do the bigger films, the studio has to give the final thumbs up and they're usually not big on risk taking because they're trying to make money.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Independent, Thumbs Up, Giving

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• Pressure to produce over the short term - a gun to the head of everyone - encourages excessive risk taking which manifests itself in several ways - fully invested posture at all times, the use of leverage, and a market centric orientation that makes it difficult to stand apart from the crowd and take a long term perspective.

  Seth Klarman

  Gun, Perspective, Long

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• I like to foster an atmosphere on set of collaboration and openness and risk taking. The beauty is when you have such brilliantly talented people as I did in my cast, you definitely don't want to fetter them in any sense. You want them to be able to go out there and do their thing and feel confident in doing their thing, because ultimately I'm the person who gets the credit which is great.

  Dan Mazer

  People, Risk, Atmosphere

  Source: collider.com

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• There are two sure ways to fail: never get started and quit before you succeed. Many companies promote the language of risk-taking and innovation but are so concerned with short term profit goals that their culture discourages innovation (trying new things) and abandons promising projects too soon. It shouldn't require exceptional moral courage to try new things and stick with them.

  Michael Josephson

  Two, Goal, Risk

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• Without a vision there is no possibility of creating something larger than what al-ready exists. An entrepreneur has to be able to bring something to the table through his or her vision that is not being provided by others - a special way of meeting needs, caring for others, treating patients, or marketing. An entrepreneur must have enormous faith. Risk-taking is critical to the development of an enterprise. You will not take risks unless you have the faith to do so.

  Tony Robbins

  Caring, Creating, Entrepreneur

  Interview with Dr. Joe Blaes, www.dentaleconomics.com. February 1, 2000.

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• Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks.

  Paulo Coelho

  Risk, Disillusionment, Disillusioned

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept: A Novel of Forgiveness”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• Within legal enforcement of "morality," there is no sense of how to morally, ethically, or fairly help people live safer lives. It's all about banishment or punishment or forced destitution - all of which creates more desperation, and more social risk-taking by people in moments of crisis.

  Terre Thaemlitz

  Punishment, People, Risk

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• J.P. Morgan once had a friend who was so worried about his stock holdings that he could not sleep at night. The friend asked, 'What should I do about my stocks?' Morgan replied, 'Sell down to your sleeping point' Every investor must decide the trade-off he or she is willing to make between eating well and sleeping well. High investment rewards can only be achieved at the cost of substantial risk-taking. So what is your sleeping point? Finding the answer to this question is one of the most important investment steps you must take.

  Burton Malkiel

  Sleep, Night, Eating Well

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• America has its roots in a tradition of risk-taking pioneers. In more conservative Europe, if you fail in business or actually end up going to jail for it, you're finished as a businessman for good.

  Stelios Haji-Ioannou

  Europe, Roots, America

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Success comes from delegating, risk-taking and having a good TEAM!

  Richard Branson

  Team, Risk, Good Team

  "Richard Branson: Success Comes From Delegating, Risk-Taking, And Having A Good Team" by Vivian Giang, www.businessinsider.com. October 18, 2013.

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• I hope progressive ways of thinking will permeate the "mainstream" more and more in the coming years. Goddess knows we have endured a very long spell (thirty plus years) of regressive thinking and hyper conservativism dominating our culture and national discourse. It necessitates risk taking and rule breaking by people in all walks of life to swing that pendulum back though.

  Ani DiFranco

  Thinking, Years, Swings

  Interview with Mary Ann Rossoni, get-ri.com. September 1, 2015.

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• There has always been a part of me that saw wilderness and risk-taking as the path to freedom.

  Sam Keen

  Risk, Path, Saws

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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