217 quotes found
“You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.”
“I compensate for big risks by always doing my homework and being well-prepared. I can take on larger risks by reducing the overall risk.”
“Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.”
“We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy a smooth superhighwa...”
“Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape a fire is guilty of suicide?”
“To gain that which is worth having it may be necessary to lose everything else.”
“We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.”
“You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.”
“It is the risk element which ensures security. Risk brings out the ingenuity and resourcefulness which ensure success.”
“Entrepreneurs in accepting risk achieve security for all. In embracing change they ensure social and economic stability.”
“Those who cling to life die and those who defy death live.”
“Risk always brings its own rewards: the exhilaration of breaking through of getting to the other side the relief of a conflict healed the clarity when a paradox dissolves.”
“And the trouble is if you don't risk anything you risk even more.”
“Danger can never by overcome without taking risks.”
“The rewards go to the risk-takers those who are willing to put their egos on the line and reach out to other people and to a richer fuller life for themselves.”
“No guts no glory.”
“Every minute of life I take a risk it's part of the enjoyment.”
“Everything is sweetened by risk.”
“My favorite thing is to go where I have never gone.”
“Sometimes I think we can tell how important it is to risk by how dangerous it is to do so.”
