Risk Quotes

"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way."

"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."

"When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor."

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— / I took the one less traveled by, / And that has made all the difference."

"It is not the critic who counts... The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood."

"It's not whether you're right or wrong that's important, but how much money you make when you're right and how much you lose when you're wrong."

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

"If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late."

"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all."

"It’s not just about winning. It’s about not losing."

"The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo."

"You can't have a high return without a high risk."

"What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do."

"Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision."

"Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration."

"Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough."

"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."

"If you're not failing, you're not pushing your limits, and if you're not pushing your limits, you're not maximizing your potential."

"The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks."

"Never was anything great achieved without danger."

"Given the same amount of intelligence, timidity will do a thousand times more damage in war than audacity."

"If you're not working on the most important problem you think you can solve, why not?"

"He who will win knows when to fight and when not to fight."

"Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose."

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

"Screw it, let's do it."

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."

"Thinking in bets starts with recognizing that there are exactly two things that determine how our lives turn out: the quality of our decisions and luck."

"Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better."

"Fortunes require leverage. Business leverage comes from capital, people, and products with no marginal cost of replication."

"The primary difference between a rich person and poor person is how they manage fear."

"Only the paranoid survive."