Dean Kamen Quotes

For good or for bad, I'm a risk taker. I like high-stakes, high-reward type situations.

Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?

I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.

If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.

A well-defined backup plan is sabotage waiting to happen. Why push through the dip, why take the risk, why blow it all when there's the comfortable alternative instead? The people who break through usually have nothing to lose, and they almost never have a backup plan.

I think you make impacts by taking risks.

It's not that we fly by the seat of our pants. We're not afraid of failure.

People who take risks are the people you'll lose against.

You just go for it and see what works. There are no rules.

Some people get into this business and they're so afraid to lose anything. They try to protect their position like clinging to a beachhead. These actors end up making really safe choices. I never wanted to go that route. If I go down, I'm going down swinging.

I tend to sort of dive into things without worrying about risk or anything. Like, when I get an idea, I tend to just go for it and see what happens.

I live to feel myself in danger.

Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances then you'll never have a winning hand, and I've no regrets.

There's a touch of the gambler in anybody really competitive and somebody that's willing to concede that to succeed, sometimes you need to cut corners and to make bold choices.

I don't think I ever take huge risks, though I'm not scared of doing so.

I never want to feel that I'm playing it safe.

If I'm going to do anything extreme, I want it to have consequences.

Of course risk-taking does not always pay off, but it's a lot of fun!

He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

When I took on 'Fargo,' I thought, 'Well, this is just a terrible idea. Four people will watch it, and they'll hate-watch.' But that allowed me to just go for it and take the risks.

I always take bold moves. So it can have great return but with great risk.

At Nintendo, we do not run from risk. We run to it.

You can't play to not lose.

To take intellectual risks is to think about something that can't be done, that doesn't make any sense, and go for it responsibly.

As a player you can't be too worried if you take a risk and whether it's not going to come off.