Bob Goff Quotes

All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.

If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.

I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.

Always there should be a little mistake here and there - I am for it. The people who don't do mistakes are cold like ice. It takes risk to make a mistake. If you don't take risk, you are boring.

I always take bold moves. So it can have great return but with great risk.

Playing it safe isn't fun; you have to take a chance.

If you're not getting any bad reviews, you're not taking enough risks

There can be no freedom without freedom to fail.

The willingness to fail gives us the freedom to succeed.

I have tried to establish the right to dare everything.

The brave man is not the one without fear but the one who does what he must despite being afraid. To succeed, you must be willing to risk total failure; you must learn this.

We are alive and need to take risks. And if we fail, so what? Who cares? It doesn't matter. Learn and move on without judgement.

You just have to change. To be successful, what you have to do is have an acceptance of risk and you have to be pretty explicit about that, because if you don’t accept risk, you don’t get any innovation. And that means part of risk is you have to accept failure because not everything works.

I think the most interesting stuff comes from people who've just got nothing to lose. You know, let's kamikaze this thing - just throw themselves in it, devil may care.

Make it dangerous or it's not worth doing.

The only way to do something interesting is not care if you fail.

It is only by being bold that you get anywhere. If you are a risk-taker, then the art is to protect the downside.

My willingness to fail gives me the ability to succeed.

Unless you're willing to fail miserably in the pursuit of your dreams, you'll never make it.

I think risk is important. I don't care if it's a great financial risk or a physical risk. You only get out of something what you put into it and the fact that you are willing to risk something means that you are going to get a lot more out of it.

Do not simplify. Do not worry about failure. Failure is a badge of honour. It means you risked failure.

Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces? I suppose it is, but I think it would entail doing the same things over and over again without taking chances, without taking risks or exploring our limits, without finding out what we can and can't do.

In the years ahead of me, I learned that the world is actually filled with people ready to tell you how likely something is, and what it means to be realistic. But what I have also learned is that no one, no one truly knows what is possible until they go and do it.

If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time to be considering alternative strategies.

A lot of people criticize Formula 1 as an unnecessary risk. But what would life be like if we only did what is necessary?