Ryan Fitzpatrick Quotes

I've always been happy to take a gamble on myself.

A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.

When you're doing what you love to do, you become resilient. You create a habit of taking chances on yourself. If you do what's expected of you, and things go poorly, you will look to external sources for what to do next, because that will be your habit. You will be standing there frozen. If you are just filling a role, you will be blindsided.

Learn to bet on yourself and have confidence in your own decisions. No one knows your business better than you.

I'd rather attempt something I'm not sure I can do.

Do I trust myself? Sometimes I don't even know, but I can only just kind of throw my hat in the ring and hope for the best. Depending on how much I trust the other people is how much freedom I can allow myself to have on that particular set.

Believe in individual initiatives, in courage, in risk.

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

When you put fear aside and follow your convictions, you get to try and achieve so many more things.

If you want to meet a better quality man, you're going to have to get used to taking more risks.

I often see people who I think could be really successful in business but they just don't realise they have the skills and they don't believe in themselves.

Like I've said, you've got to bet on yourself sometimes... I bet on myself and it worked.

As I began to take risks, leaving my very comfortable and secure job and taking this first leap into fashion, every subsequent risk became easier to take because I began to see the kind of opportunity and excitement that risk-taking offered.

For God's sakes, quit worrying about your next job. Just do the best you can at the job you have now, and the offers will come. And when they do, if you have confidence in yourself you don't have to feel that you can't turn it down if it isn't quite right for you because you fear you'll never get another offer. You will. Wait for the right opportunity, and turn down all the rest. It will make all the difference.

I think it's the first idea I ever got about doing something on my own, because it was the first time I have ever really felt the confidence to do it.

To take a job just so I can go on a fancy vacation doesn't really seem worth it.

I am much more happy doing what I know I can do than what I am not sure I could do.

When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.

If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

I've learned a huge amount because I've been tested and, more importantly, I've been trusted.

In the new economy, we all have to be entrepreneurs with our own lives - with all the rewards and risks and, yes, anxieties that entails.

I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life - and I became that woman.

I guess this year I'm going to find out if I'm good enough or not. If I'm not, I don't care. I'll do something else, it's not a biggie.