Risk-taking Quotes - Page 3

And the American people are the greatest people in the world. What makes America the greatest nation in the world is the heart of the American people: hardworking, innovative, risk-taking, God- loving, family-oriented American people.

Mitt Romney

Meaningful, Heart, America

Mitt Romney at GOP primary debate at Ronald Reagan library in Simi Valley, California, www.nytimes.com. May 3, 2007.

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A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

John Henry Newman

Inspirational, Inspiring, Motivational Sports

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The biggest risk is not taking any risk.

Mark Zuckerberg

Inspirational, Morning, Business

"Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg -- Insights For Entrepreneurs" by Steve Tobak, www.cbsnews.com. October 31, 2011.

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You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

Richard Branson

Inspirational, Success, Encouraging

Richard Branson (2010). “Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur”, Virgin

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In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

Bill Cosby

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Twitter post from Nov 18, 2009

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Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

e. e. cummings

Life, Confidence, Believe

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When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.

Ellen DeGeneres

Inspirational, Success, Graduation

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Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

Mark Twain

Inspirational, Mother, Fear

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.320, Courier Corporation

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You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.

John Barrymore

Fear, Failure, Risk

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Don't be afraid to tread new ground, but do a sanity test.

Sabeer Bhatia

Tests, Sanity

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What leaders have to remember is that somewhere under the somnolent surface is the creature that builds civilizations, the dreamer of dreams, the risk taker. And remembering that, the leader must reach down to the springs that never dry up, the ever-fresh springs of the human spirit.

John W. Gardner

Dream, Spring, Civilization

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Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

Walter Anderson

Change, Happiness, Success

Walter Anderson (1988). “The Greatest Risk of All”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.

Geena Davis

Wisdom, Risk, Ifs

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Goals may cause systematic problems for organizations due to narrowed focus, unethical behavior, increased risk taking, decreased cooperation, and decreased intrinsic motivation. Use care when applying goals in your organization.

Daniel H. Pink

Motivation, Organization, Goal

Daniel H. Pink (2010). “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us”, p.51, Canongate Books

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A ship is always safe at the shore - but that is NOT what it is built for.

Albert Einstein

Inspirational, Uplifting, Spiritual

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If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

Jim Carrey

Dream, Giving Up, Starving

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Have courage and a little willingness to venture and be defeated.

Robert Frost

Courage, Littles, Venture

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I'm a writer and I also do a lot of professional speaking on risk taking and creativity as well.

William Gurstelle

Creativity, Risk, Wells

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The banks, because of mismanagement, because of huge risk taking, are now in very vulnerable positions. We can expect that we're gonna have to do more to shore up the financial system. We also are gonna have to make sure that we set up financial regulations so that not only does this never happen again, but you start having some sort of - trust in how the credit markets work again.

Barack Obama

Risk, Doe, Credit

"Interview with President Barack Obama". "Today Show" with Matt Lauer, archives.nbclearn.com. 2009.

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

Kevin Allen

Errors, Risk, Survival

Source: bobmorris.biz

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Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.

Juvenal

Mean, Dare, Worthy

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There has to be an element of risk-taking for me in my work.

Sigmar Polke

Risk, Elements

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At some point, that risk-taking private capital can take over, and have patents and trade secrets and things that let them lead the way, which happened with the steam engine and some other things, although with energy, the time of adoption is a lot longer than it is with, say, IT products or even medical advances, like drugs and vaccines.

Bill Gates

Vaccines, Adoption, Drug

"THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world". Interview with Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2016.

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We got government off the backs of the people of India, particularly off the backs of India's entrepreneurs. We introduced more competition, both internal competition and external competition. We simplified and rationalized the tax system. We made risk-taking much more attractive.

Manmohan Singh

Government, People, Entrepreneur

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If you think of global public goods like polio eradication, the kind of risk-taking new approach, philanthropy really does have a role to play there, because government doesn't do R&D about new things naturally as much as it probably should, and so philanthropy's there.

Bill Gates

Thinking, Government, Play

Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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