Baltasar Gracian Quotes

Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

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.

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

People say they want to be in risky environments and do all kinds of exciting stuff. But they don't actually know what risk means: that risk actually does bring failure and mistakes.

You need to be uncomfortable and apprehensive: True strategy is about placing bets and making hard choices. The objective is not to eliminate risk but to increase the odds of success.

Put all your eggs in one basket... the handle's going to break. Then all you've got is scrambled eggs.

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

The difference between a calculated risk and rolling the dice can be expressed in one word: homework.

Consult your dragon before you wager his hide.

Even those who venture to dip a toe in the pond of risk never allow themselves to get used to the water.

You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.

If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose.

I prefer to be alive, so I'm cautious about taking risks.

I'm not a betting man.

If you have something at risk, you think differently.

The choice is between which mistake is easier to correct: underdoing it or overdoing it.

When you take risks and things don't go your way, you can be heavily criticised by the media.

You cannot take all the chances you get.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.

You take unacceptable risk, you have to be prepared to face the consequence.

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

Great interests demand great safeguards.