Risk Taking Quotes

"Taking on a challenge is a lot like riding a horse, isn't it? If you're comfortable while you're doing it, you're probably doing it wrong." "Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to." "Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah… it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you." "Because to go where others have never gone, you have to do what others have never done." "You’ve got to take risks if you’re going to succeed. I would much rather ask forgiveness than permission." "Take a chance. It’s the best way to test yourself. Have fun and push boundaries." "The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world." "If you want swashbuckling action in your life, become an entrepreneur and give it a go." "He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life." "If you fight with all your might, there is a chance of life; where as death is certain if you cling to your corner." "It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed." "Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." "It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home." "Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn’t have the courage to say yes” to life?" "When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a huge bet he made, and it worked." "Entrepreneurship is like eating glass and walking on hot coals at the same time." "Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it." "The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore." "What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?" "Life is lived on the edge."