1,222 Quotes About Risk

Guts is about how long you can delay the cash out.

Maybe the best way to think about something in a ‘new’ way is to believe enough in what we already know to actually act on it.

Bear it in mind that tomorrow must also have its own brand of assignments. Shifting today’s work to tomorrow is an inevitable step towards massing up difficult tasks for yourself, whose risk of leading into failure is high.

Over a lifetime, you’re going to make a lot of decisions. And it’s actually rational to emphasize exploration—the new rather than the best, the exciting rather than the safe, the random rather than the considered—for many of those choices, particularly earlier in life.

Not being you is risky way of becoming.

If I have refused to risk, I have in the self-same decision refused to love. And if indeed I have refused to love, tragically I have refused to live. And when will I realize that that in and of itself is an unacceptable risk.

We avoid risks in life only to die, and end up facing the greatest risk which is having lived life risking nothing at all.

Leaders are interested in gains. However, they acknowledge that there is no gain without pain. They embrace the pain.

Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain.(Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)