Leslie Odom Jr. Quotes

You don't want to leave 'what if's in life.

I never look forward, because I have no idea about how any of it happened to getting here. I've no idea how the next five years are going to be.

People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.

I don't ever think about the roads I didn't take because I spend too much time thinking what's ahead. I don't go backwards.

As long as you put yourself out there for things to happen that you want, something's going to happen, but it's never exactly what you imagine, maybe.

You never know the way your career takes.

Every morning you get up, risk starts.

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

Sometimes you succeed and sometimes you don't.

I spent 26 years in the business without ever knowing what I was doing a month from now.

Good parts should always scare you a little bit, and good parts... you might not get advice to do them.

Whether I fall on my feet or fall on my arse, I dunno. You've got to take those risks.

We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fear has always made me feel worse.

My advice to young people is to get something that's growing because that's how you get career opportunities thrown at you that you don't deserve, if you will... that come at you early because the firms need you.

If you're not willing to risk, there are no rewards.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Life is a risk.

I think we spend so much of our lives trying to pretend that we know what's going to happen next. In fact we don't. To recognize that we don't know even what will happen this afternoon and yet having the courage to move forward - that's one meaning of faith.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.

There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.

Danger will wink on opportunity.

You must risk to win.

I don't reject caution, but you also have to be careful about caution because there's a stage when it turns into paralysis.