James Goldsmith Quotes

The biggest risk of all is not taking one.

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.

If you scared to take chances, you'll never have the answers...

It's way easier to stay in the comfort zone, especially when things are going good than to go out on a limb and take some risks. My philosophy is exactly the opposite: Sometimes it's risky not to take a risk.

The risk is not in doing something that feels risky. The risk is in not doing something that feels risky.

The only risk is not taking the risk. You've got to take that step.

I don't want to completely self-sabotage everything that I've got and alienate everyone. But I definitely want to take some chances as I always have.

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

I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are

The biggest risk in life is not risking.

If you never take a risk, you will never know what changes you need to make.

I've had to make really big decisions, knowing the results were not always in my control. Through these moments, I've learned to be daring and take risks but understand that everything always happens for a reason.

If you don't take risks you won't achieve anything.

Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say "yes" to life?

Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks.

If you don't take the risk, you forfeit the miracle.

Don't be afraid to do something unconventional, to take a chance, to risk something.

Risks are a measure of people. People who won't take them are trying to preserve what they have. People who do take them often end up having more.

If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

It seems like the more I live, the more I realize that saying 'yes' is almost never a mistake. If you say no, it might feel safe, but then you end up going nowhere.

The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.

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

Yet in all those cases I finally steeled myself to seize the opportunity, and find a way to muddle through and eventually conclude that I had, in fact, chosen the right path, as risky as it seemed at the time.

He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

If I'm doing something I know I can pull off, then that's not the book I should be writing.