bold undertakings Quotes

What people speak of as adventure is something nobody in his right mind would seek out, and it becomes romantic only when one is safely at home.

It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.

[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.

Memorable people do memorable things. Followers are seldom remembered. The herd mentality is the killer of innovation. When appropriate, be bold in your undertakings.

Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ... The great fact [is] that in their day the great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past.

What men call adventures usually consist of the stoical endurance of appalling daily misery.

The great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past. Only the adventurous can understand the greatness of the past.

Adventure and danger can be good for your heart and soul.

For I had rather die in the adventure ot noble achievements, then live in obscure and sluggish security.

This individual does not know where initiative ends and rocket-propelled idiocy begins.