Robert G. Allen Quotes

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.

If nothing is at risk, nothing is established.

Uncertainty is the enemy of prosperity.

Risk is not a dirty word.

Either you sit on the pile of cash, or you continue to grow.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

There's an energy and excitement when you're building a company. You have so much tail wind. You're planting new seeds. But it's also scary, because there's no safety net.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Opportunity today, prosperity tomorrow.

Life is a risk.

My whole life has been about risk and reward.

You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.

Money begets money. If you don't have that, you wait around to be hired by somebody at the mercy of others. If you have that money in your hand, you desperately try to make the best use of it and move ahead. And that's generating income for yourself.

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.

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

We’re the party that wants to see an America in which people can still get rich.

The opportunity to earn a dollar…. just now is worth… more than the opportunity to spend a dollar in an opera house.

America is still the land of opportunity, and hard work is still a pathway to success.

This country is conducive to making money. Once you learn this lesson and make your first deal, you will really appreciate the tools available to you in the United States, the tools that will help you 'boot-strap' yourself into a large income.

As a profession, entrepreneurship breeds anything but balance. The highs can be stratospheric, and the lows can be crushing.

Making the first million is hard; making the next 100 million is easy.

My father always said that Brazil is the place to 'make America,' and by 'make America' he meant the place to grow - to prosper.

Whenever there is fear, there is opportunity. When there is great fear, there is great opportunity.

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean a giving up of familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, relationships that have lost their meaning. As Dostoevsky put it, "Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most." The real fear should be of the opposite course.