A Quote by Scott Adams

By definition, risk-takers often fail. So do morons. In practice it's difficult to sort them out.

Scott Adams

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Scott Adams
American - Cartoonist
Born: June 8, 1957

The thing about immigrants is the people who come to this country with that kind of drive? They are risk-takers. And we need risk-takers who want to improve their lives, create jobs and do those things that add to the dynamism of our economy.

Mazie Hirono

Jerk equals narcissist.Narcissists tend to be risk takers. Risk takers happen to do better in general in businesses. So jerk equals narcissist, equals risk taker.

Eric Bolling

People who refuse to step out and be used by God become the critics of those who do. Risk takers, the ones who thrill the heart of God, become the targets of those who never fail because they seldom try.

Bill Johnson

Our culture rightly admires risk-takers, but we need our 'heed-takers' more than ever.

Susan Cain

Overall, we've lost risk-takers on the red carpet at the Academy Awards. All too often, stars play it safe.

Brad Goreski

There's no checklist of how democracies fail because they fail in different ways. Some of them fail because they break up and civil war breaks out... Often they fail because someone is elected to power who doesn't respect the rules of the democracy.

Anne Applebaum

In today's rapidly changing world, the people who are not taking risk are the risk takers.

Robert Kiyosaki

Its hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone, or if it mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin with

Martin Mull

It's hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone, or if it mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin with.

Martin Mull

The risk pertinent to a particular attempt (and to its evaluation as an attempt of its sort) is the risk that the agent will fail to attain the end constitutive of that attempt. This risk of failure is coordinate with how likely or unlikely it may be that the agent will then succeed.

Ernest Sosa

Ultimately, innovation depends on the people with advanced skills who have the ideas, and on the business risk-takers willing to back them.

Anthony Pratt

When something looks really risky from the outside, what people are doing on the inside - they're not professional risk takers. But they're probably professional risk mitigators.

Anne McClain

The average American thinks billionaire investors are going to be right based on some talking head. They invest and they have no backup plan. Americans think these guys are giant risk-takers. The truth is they believe in taking as little risk as humanly possible, for the maximum amount of upside. They're looking for that spread of disproportionate risk-reward.

Tony Robbins

I like a good cliche because it reminds you that much of management practice boils down to things you need to do but often forget or fail to do often enough.

Steven Sinofsky

The rewards go to the risk-takers, those who are willing to put their egos on the line and reach out to other people and to a richer, fuller life for themselves.