Calculated Risk Quotes

• We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Life, Happiness, Courage

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• Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Encouraging

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• Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

  Andre Malraux

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.

  Charles Duhigg

  Lying, Loss, Decision

  "5 Steps To Analyze Risk In Your Business" by Jason Olsen, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 14, 2016.

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• A chance is what you take before you think about it. A calculated risk is what you take after you have evaluated all possible factors and have determined that risk

  Craig Elliott

  Adventure, Thinking, Risk

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• The difference between a calculated risk and rolling the dice can be expressed in one word: homework.

  Georgette Mosbacher

  Differences, Risk, Rolling

  Georgette Mosbacher (1994). “Feminine Force: Release the Power Within You to Create the Life You Deserve”, Touchstone

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• Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

  Robert Kennedy

  Inspirational, Success, Encouraging

  Robert F. Kennedy (1967). “To seek a newer world”, Doubleday Books

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• The Universe rewards calculated risk and passion

  Joe Rogan

  Passion, Risk, Rewards

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

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.1250, Faber & Faber

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• As an adventurer...I try to protect against the downside. I make sure I have covered as many eventualities as I can. In the end, you have to take calculated risks; otherwise you're going to sit in mothballs all day and do nothing.

  Richard Branson

  Health, Inspire, Risk

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• I think there's a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk.

  Edmund H. North

  Thinking, Differences, Risk

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• Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk — and to act.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Success, Christian, Differences

  "Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life".

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• I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed.

  Dean Alfange

  Dream, Risk, Want

  Who's who in America: 43rd Edition, 1984-1985, Volume 1, (p. 42), 1984.

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• You have to take the calculated risk,to earn something

  Dhirubhai Ambani

  Inspirational, Powerful, Risk

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• You never know who you will meet along life's journey. You have to be open to risks, but calculated risks, open to winning.

  Paula Deen

  Winning, Journey, Risk

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• Do one thing every day that scares you.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Positive, New Year

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• Take calculated risks. Act boldly and thoughtfully. Be an agile company.

  Ray Kroc

  Risk, Company

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• Take calculated risks.

  George S. Patton

  Military, Risk

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• Research is a way of taking calculated risks to bring about incalculable consequences.

  Celia Green

  Risk, Research, Way

  The Decline and Fall of Science Aphorisms (p. 1)

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• Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.

  Warren E. Burger

  Taken, Order, Risk

  Warren E. Burger (1984). “Significant Supreme Court Opinions of the Honorable Warren E. Burger: Chief Justice of the United States”

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• I do not choose to be a common man…it is my right to be uncommon—if I can…I seek opportunity—not security…I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed… to refuse to barter incentive for a dole… I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of utopias….

  Peter O'Toole

  Dream, Opportunity, Men

  "Who's Who in America". Book by Dean Alfange, vol. 1, p. 42, 1984 - 85.

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• Calculated risks are part of what you do, but the idea that something completely crazy will work just because it's completely crazy is completely crazy.

  Bill Walsh

  Crazy, Ideas, Nfl

  Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh (2009). “The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership”, p.239, Penguin

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• At this stage in my career, I don't have to take any big risks. You want to take a calculated risk, not one that leads to people saying 'yes, but there was that one time when she made that big mistake.' It's always a shame when that happens, especially if you've gotten by for decades without anything hugely tragic.

  Renee Fleming

  Mistake, Careers, People

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• There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - even calculated risk - and irresponsibility and capitulation.

  Ehud Barak

  Brave, Risk, Lines

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• Some people like to live without too much risk. They're satisfied leading a safe existence. This attitude of caution infiltrates into their goals. Every successful athlete - or businessperson - enjoys taking calculated risks. You have to. Especially in the gym when you're squatting 500 for reps and you can't get one more but grunt out ten. Your nose starts bleeding, you fall into the rack and that's set one.

  Tom Platz

  Workout, Attitude, Fall

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