Kenneth Arrow Quotes

You have to be willing to risk things; otherwise, somebody else will put you out of business.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

We should willingly take risks in supporting new projects. The tendency is to play it safe when funding is low, but we need to remember that the greatest risks have the greatest payoffs.

Government is averse to taking risk. Innovation and digital technology is all about risk taking.

A successful designer must be a gambler.

Luxembourg has a track record of being successful when it takes risks. You need to take on risks to be successful.

The companies that choose to list on Nasdaq are among the most innovative, risk-taking businesses in the world, and they are proof to us all that prudent risk-taking drives our economy forward.

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

It is interesting that the investment industry has invented new ways to lose money when the old ways seemed to work just fine.

An entrepreneur is somebody who is taking bold risks, is often doing things that have never been done before, trying to do things better. And an adventurer is challenging themselves, often doing things that have never been done before, seeing what they're capable of. In both cases, you've got to protect against the downside.

Take calculated risks. Act boldly and thoughtfully. Be an agile company.

I think our society is no longer properly valuing the intangible potential of innovation, even if we have to be a little uncomfortable with the risks associated with it, and a little bit willing to fail, pick ourselves up and dust ourselves off and try again. We don’t seem to want to do that as much as we used too.

The ultimate risk is not taking a risk.

You can't lead without taking risk.

The real question is how do you survive at the same time you pose those risks? Because you need to survive. And it seems to me that you survive in community or in solidarity, with others who are taking the risk with you.

I think the development of the venture capital system has been an example of something which is a successful improvement in risk-bearing. It doesn't exactly remove the risks at the beginning, but at least creates greater rewards at a slightly later stage and therefore encourages, say, small companies to engage in technologically risky enterprises.

There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.

If you want execution, hail only success. If you want creativity, hail risk, and remain neutral about success.

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

If I were worried about my reputation, I wouldn't do anything with start-ups

To do something that you feel in your heart that's great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that's successful is a series of mistakes.

We crave explanations for most everything, but innovation and progress happen when we allow ourselves to embrace uncertainty.

I've never felt that fear is my enemy. Fear is my friend. It offers me a chance to stay alert, keep growing, continue creating something new. If you don't take that sort of risk, you learn nothing.

[Successful] projects that entrepreneurs initiated and carried through had one essential quality. All had been thoroughly contemplated by the regnant experts and dominant companies, with their large research staffs and financial resources, and had been judged too difficult, untimely, risky, expensive and unprofitable.