Richard Branson Quotes

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

The only risk we run is by doing nothing.

There are hazards in anything one does but there are greater hazards in doing nothing.

If you spend most of your effort preventing bad things from happening you will also prevent many good things from happening.

The real risk is doing nothing.

Making no decision is a decision. To do nothing. And doing nothing always brings you to nowhere.

If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.

Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.

Not to decide is to decide.

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.

The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Entrepreneurs have only the murkiest picture of the future in which they are making their bets, and also there is ambiguity: they don't know when they push this lever or that lever that the outcome is going to be what they think it is going to be - there is the law of unanticipated consequences.

You cannot take all the chances you get.

With so much at stake maybe I'll just leave now.

I am part of a political class that is paralyzed by the prospect of risk.

Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction?

I hope, George, that you know what you're doing.

I don't reject caution, but you also have to be careful about caution because there's a stage when it turns into paralysis.

Sometimes inaction is worse than action.

You tend to regret the things you haven't done.

There are moments in your life where you realize you could do nothing, but if you do, you'll probably regret it forever.

Doing something costs something. Doing nothing costs something. And, quite often, doing nothing costs a lot more!