Peter Drucker Quotes

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.

If you want to avoid all risks, soon you will have no risks to worry about.

With everything I do, there always seems to be a massive risk involved.

If you take risks, you may fail; but if you don't take risks, you will surely fail

Everything involves a risk. No risk, no reward.

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

By definition, risk-takers often fail. So do morons. In practice it's difficult to sort them out.

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

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties.

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.

If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure.

The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.

Any pick you make, or any player you sign, something can go wrong.

No matter how much you plan and prepare, things can still go wrong.

If you want the most reward you have to take the most risk.

Playing it safe is the riskiest choice we can ever make.

Not taking a risk is a risk. That's how I see it.

There is the risk you cannot afford to take, and there is the risk you cannot afford not to take.

If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

Playing things too safe is the most popular way to fail.

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

I've made lots of mistakes. Probably the worst one - I would say they tie. It's either when I didn't move fast enough on something, or I didn't take a big enough risk.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.