Amar Bose Quotes

Sometimes you have to wait for the right deal. They all seem good, at least at first, and they may make you some quick money. But when the right deal comes, and it fits into your [overall] plan, it's just overwhelming success. Sometimes, with the long-term deals, you have to take a risk if you're going to get a reward. It's exactly like fighting. Sometimes you have to take chances to get that huge win.

You take an educated gamble. If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you're not doing your job.

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

I just feel that no matter what comes in a career - and mine has been all over the map - you must stay at the table, pick up the cards you're dealt and play them.

Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping their outcomes towards success or failure: long-term planning, and willingness to reconsider core values.

Don't be irresponsible in your risks, but as long as the project can fail without it causing the person to fail, keep trying; keep taking the best shots. Learn from them; pick yourself up.

I tend to think year-by-year and tournament-by-tournament.

When everybody starts a company, they are so energized and passionate about it. And what happens is that a lot of times maybe that's not sustainable.

Whenever you're at a poker table - and you're betting all of your chips - you're worried, you're scared. Is it the right play? Have I thought through all the angles? That's what stinks about life and business in general. If I had to calculate 100% certainty on every deal I did, I literally would do zero deals.

We like being private because when there is a downturn, as in 2001 and 2008, we do not reduce people. Also, we have flat decision-making. It's quick. We don't have to meet quarterly numbers, and it's all about excellence of work for the client.

Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

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.

Do your worrying before you place your bet, not after the wheel stops turning.

In today's rapidly changing world, the people who are not taking risk are the risk takers.

Be willing to lose a battle in order to win the war.

I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed.

You have to take the calculated risk,to earn something

If it's a principle, it's a winner. If it's a tactic, it's a loser.

To venture an opinion is like moving a piece at chess: it may be taken, but it forms the beginning of a game that is won.

Strategic quitting is the secret of successful organizations

Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble

The question that faces the strategic decision maker is not what his organisation should do tomorrow. It is, what do we have to do today to be ready for an uncertain tomorrow?

Scoring comes from being able to preserve what you've got and play your smart shots when you need to play them and not do stupid things and take advantage of things when have you them.

The reason so few people are successful is no one has yet found a way for someone to sit down and slide uphill.

Often, in the Ruy Lopez, one must be patient, wait and carry on a lengthy and wearisome struggle.