Top 1200 Risk-taking Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

It seems that not being religious is a form of risk-taking, consistent with other patterns of short-sighted behaviour in men.

So my message is in whichever realm, be it going into space or going into the deep sea, you have to balance the yin and yang of caution and boldness, risk aversion and risk taking, fear and fearlessness. No great accomplishment takes place, whether it be a movie or a deep ocean expedition, or a space mission, without a kind of dynamic equipoise between the two. Luck is not a factor. Hope is not a strategy. Fear is not an option.

Survival in the demand economy depends on and requires experimentation, risk taking, and trial and error.

China has all the advantages in the world. But it doesn't have a history of free thinking, risk-taking pioneers - the kind of people the U.S. is built upon.

I don't want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me... Just too much risk.

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

Companies are increasingly taking responsibility for the safety of the food they sell, rather than risk their brand on a large recall.

You have chosen the wrong path if it's not fun. And you are probably not taking enough risk if it's not hard and rocky sometimes.

I think that, on the whole, risk-taking entrepreneurial characters regard nature as a sort of background that we can use for our own advantage.

I always think it's silly when people talk about works of culture taking risks. Because there's not any risk involved.

Limiting the destructive risk-taking by large financial firms and banks which are 'too big to fail' is needed.

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

The music business is suffering because fewer artists are being invested in. Labels are putting in less money, taking fewer risks and signing half as many artists as they did 10 years ago. Everything is risk averse right now and there are two ways to deal with a business situation like this: either reduce your risk or increase your return. They're reducing their risk to the bone and looking for ways with their 360 deals to increase their return. They're still not making money. Artists are suffering. Labels, or music investors, are suffering.

Personal style is about taking a risk, trying something unexpected, and having fun with fashion, but always being true to yourself.

To place your dreams before the crowd is to risk ridicule. To go forward in the face of overwhelming odds is to risk failure. But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard of life is to risk nothing.

If you're experiencing no anxiety or discomfort, the risk you're taking probably isn't worthy of you. The only risks that aren't a little scary are the ones you've outgrown.

We have kind of turned our back on the fact that hard work, sacrifice, risk-taking, innovation, is what made America great.

What I like most about change is that it's a synonym for 'hope'. If you're taking a risk, what you are really saying is, 'I believe in tomorrow and I will be the part of it.

We can bring together rich natural resources, innovative research and development, smart investors, and risk-taking farming and manufacturing entrepreneurs.

I'm taking probably the biggest risk of my career in playing the part in Filth. If you stop taking risks, then you get bored, or you just keep playing the same part, over and over again. Eventually audiences get bored of that, as well.

A risk-taking environment starts at the top of a corporation. If the CEO doesn't have this spirit, chances are you won't find it anywhere else in the organization.

Turner Broadcasting went from a very entrepreneurial, risk-taking company where I had a tremendous amount of freedom and autonomy to a corporate, bureaucratic nightmare.

Be cautious and content with low positive returns in 2015. The time for risk taking has passed.

I'm lucky to have family around me. Otherwise, I'll be taking the risk of falling in love with myself.

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

Risk taking and the drive to pursue innovative ideas are the fuel that stokes the entrepreneurial spirit.

Across disparate cultures that require physical risk-taking as a rite of passage, it is always the men who engage in such pursuits.

'Taking charge of one's life' involves risk, because it means confronting a diversity of open possibilities.

I've arrived at the place if I'm not taking a career risk, I'm not happy. If I'm scared, then I know I'm being challenged.

When all is said and done, you're either for investment and risk taking as a solution for what ails the economy, or you're against it. The real world offers no middle ground.

My shows have room for a bit of improvisation. In a film, you can't have that risk; you can't have someone taking 10 seconds longer.

There will always be a measure of calculated risk-taking in manufacturing fame, especially in a deeply divided political climate.

Corporations have been killing the risk-taking and exploration that makes software great. They have tried to rip the soul out of development.

When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.

Self-confidence is something caught and not taught. And, risk-running and chance-taking are the only ways to catch it.

In the media business and as a creative executive, if you don't take risks, you're dead in the water. Calculated risk taking is essential for success. No one said it was easy.

I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

Writing is taking a risk, and it is actually fighting invisible and invincible enemies. They are over-confidence, stupidity, expectation and narcissism.

Innovation implies high risk, and with high risk comes failure, so you've got to be prepared for that, but if you don't risk, then your business goes stale very quickly.

In the media business and as a creative executive, if you don't take risks, you're dead in the water. Calculated risk-taking is essential for success.

I run skills-building programs focused on healthy risk taking, failure resilience, and self-care for undergraduates around the country.

At the risk bragging, one of the things I'm best at is riding coattails. Behind every successful man is me, smiling and taking partial credit.

I'm used to taking risks - my career was a risk. Being a stand-up comic is not something that's normally accepted when your mother is Filipino.

I fear the future I wish for my children is at risk, so I'm taking action. Please join me.

I'm totally comfortable with taking some risk, but as long as it's doctrinated in something that makes sense.

I have discovered the virtue of patience and I don't quite believe that taking a break for good reason can be a risk.

Life is all about toiling and labor. But obviously I get great joy in confronting challenge and taking risk.

I'm incredibly fortunate to have met the intelligent, generous, risk-taking, stimulating man to whom I am married. He's really amazing.

America is the greatest engine of innovation that has ever existed, and it can't be duplicated anytime soon, because it is the product of a multitude of factors: extreme freedom of thought, an emphasis on independent thinking, a steady immigration of new minds, a risk-taking culture with no stigma attached to trying and failing, a noncorrupt bureaucracy, and financial markets and a venture capital system that are unrivaled at taking new ideas and turning them into global products.

If you ask me, taking on risk and being more daring is a real important part of creativity.

Risks I think are the thing that make life important and everything that you and I do is risk vs. benefit. Is there a risk to sending your kid out? Absolutely. Is there a benefit? It exceeds the risk.

Innovation demands risk-taking - which, in turn, entails redefining failure, stripping away its power to inhibit.

Cities are gentrified by the following types of people in sequence: first the risk-oblivious (artists), then the risk-aware (developers), finally the risk adverse (dentists from New Jersey).

When someone wants something then they should be aware that they are taking a risk. But this is precisely what makes life interesting.

You risk working with this director, you risk making this movie, you risk working with another actor you don't know. It makes your heart beat faster. And it keeps you interested.

Unfortunately, tools that transfer risk can also increase systemic risk if major counterparties fail to manage their own risk exposures properly.

It’s all risk. And if it isn’t, it needs to be. The real trick is to find the risk that is right for you, a risk that doesn’t take you so far out of your own identity that it’s not a you that you recognize who’s doing the writing.

Space travel leading to skylife is vital to human survival, because the question is not whether we will be hit by an asteroid, but when. A planetary culture that does not develop spacefaring is courting suicide. All our history, all our social progress and growing insight will be for nothing if we perish. No risk of this kind, however small it might be argued to be, is worth taking, and no cost to prevent it is too great. No level of risk is acceptable when it comes to all or nothing survival.

I think risk is important. I don't care if it's a great financial risk or a physical risk. You only get out of something what you put into it and the fact that you are willing to risk something means that you are going to get a lot more out of it.

When so many lives are at risk, when so much killing is going on, when there's so much chaos and suffering, isn't the risk warranted? ... And if we don't take the risk of coming to the conference, what do we do? We let it continue?