Henry Hudson Quotes

Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist.

My whole life has been about risk and reward.

All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.

Bigger risk equals bigger reward.

Risk is an essential part of progress.

If there is megabucks in anything, it’s probably going to happen.

I could persuade a millionaire on a Friday to subsidize a revolution for Saturday out of which he would make a huge profit on Sunday even though he was certain to be executed on Monday.

It's incredible how much money you can make on a rubber toy.

So this is one of those times when life is just handing you something, telling you what to do, which way to go. So enjoy it. It'll be fun. I guarantee. I can't guarantee we'll find the goddamn thing, but it'll be interesting. Then if we do find it - if we do- the payoff's huge.

The only safe thing is to take a chance.

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

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

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.

I've made a profit from everything I have done in life.

And for me, the real world involves everything: risk, danger, beauty, energy, all we meet with in the real world.

A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry.

If you stay in this business long enough, you're liable to hit it big.

In any investment, you expect to have fun and make money.

In any business opportunity, you'd be looking, probably, primarily at the risk and return. Some business can be very risky with a low return; what you want is the lowest risk with the biggest return.

The word 'commercial' implies a notion of profit.

If nothing is at risk, nothing is established.

Every time you're given a job, you're given a gift, and if you're flexible, you never know what's going to happen.

1976, I was all of 18, and when I stepped into the world of business, the capital I had in my hand was 20,000 rupees.

If you're not willing to risk, there are no rewards.

I'm not in business to make money.