Bill Johnson Quotes

There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.

I'm grateful to all the non-risk-takers.

The boring, safe choices never stand out. Take risks!

You can't just live cautiously, I think, when you're in a knockout game.

Think before you speak. Read before you think. This will give you something to think about that you didn't make up yourself - a wise move at any age, but most especially at seventeen, when you are in the greatest danger of coming to annoying conclusions.

I am of the opinion that the boldest measures are the safest.

I knew a wise man that had it for a by-word, when he saw men hasten to a conclusion, "Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner."

Much has seen said of the wisdom of old age. Old age is wise, I grant, for itself, but not wise for the community. It is wise in declining new enterprises, for it has not the power nor the time to execute them; wise in shrinking from difficulty, for it has not the strength to overcome it; wise in avoiding danger, for it lacks the faculty of ready and swift action, by which dangers are parried and converted into advantages. But this is not wisdom for mankind at large, by whom new enterprises must be undertaken, dangers met, and difficulties surmounted.

A faith that moves mountains is a faith that expands horizons, it does not bring us into a smaller world full of easy answers, but into a larger one where there is room for wonder.

Dare we linger, dare we skate? Dare we laugh or celebrate, knowing we may strain the ice? Preserve the ice at any price?

Those who believe they can move mountains, do!

Claudia's the sort of girl who goes through life holding onto the sides.

I spent my whole career playing it safe, being a gentleman, never doing anything controversial.

Those who play a safe game die very safely.

In war nothing is impossible, provided you use audacity.

If you don't make bold moves, the world doesn't move forward.

a vast deal may be done by those who dare to act.

I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.

Entrepreneurial leadership requires the ability to move quickly when opportunity presents itself.

They must go for it now as they have nothing to lose but the match.

Think before you act and then act decisively. Fortune favors the brave.

Like most trends, at the beginning it's driven by fundamentals, at some point speculation takes over. What the wise man does in the beginning, the fool does in the end.

Life is too short to spend your time avoiding failure.

None wise dares hopeless venture.

Wisdom includes not getting angry unnecessarily. The Law ignores trifles and the wise man does, too.