Craig Federighi Quotes

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' And Vanity comes along and asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But Conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?'

If we want to get to the next level, let's take a risk and try something different.

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

You only do good work when you're taking risks and pushing yourself.

In life you need to take a risk.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

In life, everybody faces choices between doing what's popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what's lonely, difficult, and right. These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.

Sometimes doors open and other close and you have to figure out which one you're going to take. I'm always for the one that's challenging. That's where I think you live your life to the fullest.

You have to take risks.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

For your soul's sake, invoke the agent of change called risk, which ensures that things will not be the same tomorrow as they are today. All real change requires risk.

Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.

Modernity is not a problem to be overcome but a challenge to be met.

There comes a time in the life of every public official when he must decide between right and regularity.

Leadership involves risk-taking.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right — for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be "damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

Sometimes, you have to take a big risk.

With a lot of things in life, it's hard to do the right thing.

Comfort is the killer of creativity.

With innovation, there is always risk.

There is something to be said about taking the risk. We all know that is where the greatest reward is.

Risk is the essence of any reward - to try the thing that no one else is willing to try.