Kevin Costner Quotes

The best stuff happens when you take a chance. When you risk something and do the thing that the other people are taking a chance on, on a network kind of level, they will be rewarded. You know, risk-reward.

Creative risks will always outweigh technical mistakes.

Risk is what separates the artist from the artisan.

If you're going to be an entrepreneur... it's not all textbook. It's gut feeling, it's intuition, it's a feeling you have that you can do this and make it happen. I think you have to have a personality.

True entrepreneurshi p comes only from risk-taking.

To make great movies, there is an element of risk. You have to say, 'Well, I am going to make this film, and it is not really a sure thing.'

I have always believed that the risk takers are eventually rewarded.

I believe that a creative career is only as good as the risks that you take with it.

Getting anything off the ground is going to require a little bit of risk. That risk starts with sharing the idea.

It was actually the enormous risks I took with my pictures, skating right up to the edge of non-acceptance, that paid off so handsomely.

When we started NFL Films, there were no focus groups, there were no demographic studies, there were no surveys. Every decision that we made, we made with our hearts, not with our heads. And, in the very beginning, we really didn't even have a business plan.

But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.

I've taken challenges with the big risk that it can all go wrong. But that's what I like and I'd rather do that than be safe all the time.

I'm a freestyle creative entrepreneur. Not a businessman. I like to create ventures in which creativity stands at the centre.

And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Everybody wants you to do this thing that you've always been doing forever. That's what they want: they want Martin Scorsese to make the same film two hundred times rather than trying to be something different.

We started Fox when everyone said it couldn't be done.

The recommendation when I'm mentoring folks, I always tell them - and we talked about this last year - take a risk.

You may or may not like 'Baaz.' But you will definitely say I have done something different.

I was kind of nervous to put 'Learning' out: it's a lot different. That's who I am. I'm going to push the boundaries.

The act of founding a company is its own act of narcissism: 'I alone can do this.'

The most interesting people to me are entrepreneurs. As someone who's owned my own business for over a decade, I am always so inspired by people who are building things.

In every artist there is a touch of audacity without which no talent is conceivable.

Don't stop at the first no. You have to be a risk taker. If there weren't room for creativity, the patent office would close down.