Risk-taking Quotes - Page 4

• I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

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• There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

  John F. Kennedy

  Motivational, Leadership, Freedom

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• Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

  Robert Kennedy

  Inspirational, Success, Encouraging

  Robert F. Kennedy (1967). “To seek a newer world”, Doubleday Books

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• To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Life, Success, Courage

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• The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

  Maimonides

  Self Esteem, Decisions You Make, Risk

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• Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

  Andre Malraux

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Inspirational, Positive, Wisdom

  Journal, 10 Oct. 1922

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• I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow. When there's that moment of 'Wow, I'm not really sure I can do this,' and you push through those moments, that's when you have a breakthrough.

  Marissa Mayer

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  "Google's Marissa Mayer: Passion is a gender-neutralizing force" by Felicia Taylor, www.cnn.com. April 5, 2012.

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• Strategic planning is the continuous process of making present entrepreneurial (risk-taking) decisions systematically and with the greatest knowledge of their futurity; organizing systematically the efforts needed to carry out these decisions; and measuring the results of these decisions against the expectations through organized, systematic feedback.

  Peter Drucker

  Expectations, Effort, Decision

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.120, Routledge

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• Many people crave security and stability rather than risk-taking, and that doesn't make them any less American. They are the workers rather than the job creators, and all societies need both.

  John Podhoretz

  Jobs, People, Risk

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• If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Twitter post from Mar 16, 2016

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• You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.

  Will Rogers

  Leadership, Summer, Risk

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

  John Spence

  Strong Women, Hippie, Thinking

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• We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Pay The Price, Risk, Bans

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• We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Motivational, Success, Congratulations

  Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.71, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

  Paul Tillich

  Failure, Design, Risk

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• It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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  You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.

  Chuck Yeager

  Inspirational, Leadership, Jobs

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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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• Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.

  Juvenal

  Mean, Dare, Worthy

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• There has to be an element of risk-taking for me in my work.

  Sigmar Polke

  Risk, Elements

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• We got government off the backs of the people of India, particularly off the backs of India's entrepreneurs. We introduced more competition, both internal competition and external competition. We simplified and rationalized the tax system. We made risk-taking much more attractive.

  Manmohan Singh

  Government, People, Entrepreneur

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• Being a star requires risk-taking shoes.

  Sarah Dessen

  Stars, Shoes, Risk

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• Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

  W. H. Murray

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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