Iain Stirling Quotes

I never had a business plan. I did, actually - I'm lying. My business plan was to get lucky, and I did; that was great. And then my second business plan was to get lucky again, and there, I faltered.

Life is about making plans from which you deviate, almost always. If you are lucky, you do come up with a plan.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.

Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.

I just want to keep doing a bunch of stuff that I don't really plan. I'm so fortunate and lucky that people keep giving me these platforms. Because I'm kind of a crazy person.

Things work in spite of me sometimes.

Those who won't take a chance don't have a chance.

If you take risks, you may fail; but if you don't take risks, you will surely fail

If you fall down those stairs and break both of your legs, don't come running to me!

Adventure is a sign of incompetence.

There are no little events in life, those we think of no consequence may be full of fate, and it is at our own risk if we neglect the acquaintances and opportunities that seem to be casually offered, and of small importance.

Play is experimenting with chance.

We haven't got a plan so nothing can go wrong!

Nought venture nought have.

You got to risk it if you want the biscuit.

Taking one’s chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around that you cannot see until it is too late and you can do nothing else but scream and cling to a plastic duck.

. . . men seldom risk their lives where an escape is without hope of recompense.

If people will bring dynamite into a powder factory, they must expect explosions.

If at first you do succeed don't take any more chances.

Suppose you should fail. Is that so terrible? Not to have tried is a worse failure.

When you take high risks, the rewards are higher. So sometimes I'll gamble just to see what happens. If it doesn't work, I know I can't do that.

Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails.

My recipe for success is chance, basically. Just luck. It's a miracle that people still hire me after some of the stuff I've gotten away with. Honestly!

You can not achieve success without the risk of failure. If you are not afraid to fail, than you have a chance, but you are never going to get there unless you risk it.