Barbara Delinsky Quotes

People say they want to be in risky environments and do all kinds of exciting stuff. But they don't actually know what risk means: that risk actually does bring failure and mistakes.

It's not like you take the right turning and you get everlasting happiness and you take the wrong one and your life's a disaster. In real life it's often impossible to tell which decision is the one you should make because what you stand to gain and what you stand to lose are sometimes-often-neck and neck.

There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.

If you risk nothing you gain nothing

June smiled. "So what will it be? Safety, or a future of pain and possibility?"

Sometimes I think we can tell how important it is to risk by how dangerous it is to do so.

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties.

Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.

Courage is willingness to take the risk once you know the odds. Optimistic overconfidence means you are taking the risk because you don't know the odds. It's a big difference.

We know there is no such thing as freedom without the risk of failure.

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

If you have something at risk, you think differently.

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

I don't feel like I have anything to lose, so I don't really understand what I'm putting at risk.

In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past.

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

You have to take risks.

Most of the decisions you make are not black and white, but at the end of the day, you have to make the decision.

Any pick you make, or any player you sign, something can go wrong.

People need to take a little bit more risk.

With everything I do, there always seems to be a massive risk involved.

You don't trade in the devil you know for the one you don't know.

The hardest thing to judge is what level of risk is safe.

Everything involves a risk. No risk, no reward.