Tony Buzan Quotes

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

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.

We should willingly take risks in supporting new projects. The tendency is to play it safe when funding is low, but we need to remember that the greatest risks have the greatest payoffs.

I will take the lead in turning risks into opportunities.

However much risk we are taking, we can and probably should take more.

Everyone in a successful organization must be willing and ready to risk. Risk is like change; it's not a choice.

Take calculated risks. Act boldly and thoughtfully. Be an agile company.

Security isn't what the wise person looks for; it's opportunity. And once we begin looking for that, we find it on every side. You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.

Everything involves a risk. No risk, no reward.

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.

There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.

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

It's important to take risks.

It is only by being bold that you get anywhere. If you are a risk-taker, then the art is to protect the downside.

The ones who make it, are the ones who manage risk.

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.

Be open to opportunity and take risks. In fact, take the worst, the messiest, the most challenging assignment you can find, and then take control.

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

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

So many people condemn me for risk taking, but I find it sort of hypocritical because everybody takes risks. Even the absence of activity could be viewed as a risk. If you sit on the sofa for your entire life, you're running a higher risk of getting heart disease and cancer.

The only safe thing is to take a chance.

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

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.

I'm a great believer in not sitting around waiting for the right part to come around, but jumping in and building it for yourself.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.