Risk Quotes

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.

Roy Ash

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

Mary Kay Ash

Others attempt to live cautiously in the safety of established patterns. They do not feel fulfilled, yet they have found a formula not of success (whatever that is), but of avoiding failure. This is the living death -- when security becomes the overwhelming consideration.

Randy Read

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

May Sarton

Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances.

John Havlicek

If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

Ray Kroc

Any new venture goes through the following stages: Enthusiasm, complication, disillusionment, search for the guilty, punishment of the innocent and decoration of those who did nothing.

Anon.

The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we hit it.

Michelangelo Buonarroti, (attrib

Be bold. If you are going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.

Billie Jean King

Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets. The buck not only stops at their desks, it starts there too.

Victor Kiam

To win you have to risk loss.

Jean Claude Killy

Boldness, without the rules of propriety, becomes insubordination.

Confucius

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Warren Buffett

Somebody must take a chance. The monkeys who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in trees making faces at the monkeys who did.

Lincoln Steffens

The loving are the daring.

Bayard Taylor

During the first period of a man's life, the danger is not to take the risk.

Soren Kierkegaard

You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.

Flip Wilson

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

Pierre Corneille

If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.

Shirley Hufstedler

Virtue is bold and goodness never fearful.

William Shakespeare