Yvon Chouinard Quotes

Everything involves a risk. No risk, no reward.

Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk.

I like to take risks as long as they're healthy, you know. They're good, smart risks.

People say I take too many risks. But the fact is, there is risk involved in every shot. You can get out trying to defend a ball as well.

I don't believe in taking unnecessary risks, but a life without risk isn't worth living.

It's important to take risks.

Just taking risks for risk's sake, that doesn't do it for me. I'm willing to take risks that I think are worth it, and I've worked so hard to make sure that I survive.

Often you need to take some risk, but it must be a realistic risk, you can't take a crazy risk.

And people who take risk intelligently can usually actually make a lot more progress than people who don't.

If you have something at risk, you think differently.

Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

Luxembourg has a track record of being successful when it takes risks. You need to take on risks to be successful.

I take risks.

If you want the most reward you have to take the most risk.

Not taking a risk is a risk. That's how I see it.

One doesn't accept bad challenges. Part of it is always the risk-taking without seeing that the risks are rational and the rewards are commensurate.. are more than commensurate.. with the risks.

I'm a risk manager, but I'm also a risk taker.

By definition, risk-takers often fail. So do morons. In practice it's difficult to sort them out.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk.

We're in the business not so much of being contrarians deliberately, but rather we like to take perceived risk instead of actual risk. And what I mean by that is that you get paid for taking a risk that people think is risky, you particularly don't get paid for taking actual risk.

'Why risk?' I responded. 'It should be, why not to risk?'

If the risk is fully aligned with your purpose and mission, then it's worth considering.

I talk a lot about taking risks, and then I follow that up very quickly by saying, 'Take prudent risks.'

I take big risks, but I'm not reckless about it.

You have to take risks.