Mark Twain Quotes

America has its roots in a tradition of risk-taking pioneers. In more conservative Europe, if you fail in business or actually end up going to jail for it, you're finished as a businessman for good.

All adventure is now reactionary.

I think America is a new country. It is a young culture. The spirit of the opening of the West is still with the Americans. It's a very practical and individual-based kind of philosophy that had worked in America for a long time, had been very successful. And the spirit is very much there.

Our nation was built by pioneers - pioneers who accepted untold risks in pursuit of freedom, not by pioneers seeking offshore profits at the expense of American workers here at home.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

I'm a freestyle creative entrepreneur. Not a businessman. I like to create ventures in which creativity stands at the centre.

I'm somebody who takes risks, for better or worse. Fortunately, most of them have been for the better!

Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.

The TED Fellowship exposed me to a set of youngsters who had wilder ideas than I did - and almost all of them were pursuing their wild and crazy ideas without fear of failure.

It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.

I certainly have played women who have a pioneer spirit and longing for adventure.

If you go back to the early days of aviation, the guys designing it built it, and then they got in it and flew it. I mean, who does that anymore?

I always think about the settlers who moved to New Zealand in the 1800s. They hadn't even been to the place before. They just packed their bags and shipped over knowing they'd never see their family again or be able to speak to them - they'd maybe get a letter if they were lucky.

I have always been adventurous and rather daring.

California is a place of invention, a place of courage, a place of vision, a place of the future. People who made California what it is were willing to take risks, think outside convention and build.

That's how you live. You participate. You take risks.

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.

The pioneers get all the arrows.

I never woke up and thought, 'I really want to live a bold life.'

We started Fox when everyone said it couldn't be done.

Startups, by their nature, are entrepreneurial - testing new things, launching new products, and disrupting themselves. That's why you join a startup in the first place - to create, to stretch beyond your current capabilities, and to make an outsized impact.

I am, what you call, an audacious man. I could walk into the room of Warren Buffet, and he may not give me the money. But I am positive that we would have a good meeting.

Not everyone is as equally as adventurous as me. I get that.

My approach is just fearless. I'm not afraid to try anything.

If you want swashbuckling action in your life, become an entrepreneur and give it a go.