Bold Ventures Quotes

Fortune sides with him who dares.

All adventure is now reactionary.

Google X is here to do moonshot-type projects. Not just shooting to the moon, but bringing the moon back to Earth.

Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.

In the world of musical theatre, if everyone says it's a good idea, you wonder why nobody has done it before.

Luckily, unreasonable expectations go hand in hand with naive young scientists. The more naive the better - otherwise we would never have the audacity to try and build a 22,000-mile-high space elevator or some sprawling underwater hotel.

Part of the beauty of Silicon Valley is that people generally encourage you to think crazy. It's the hypothesis that there's nothing sacred that can't be changed.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.

There are some films that you know will do well. Then there are others which have good stories that ought to be told. But because they are slightly risky, not everybody is willing to take that up. But I think it is important to take risks because at the end of the day, you want to explore new genres and new characters.

Startups, by their nature, are entrepreneurial - testing new things, launching new products, and disrupting themselves. That's why you join a startup in the first place - to create, to stretch beyond your current capabilities, and to make an outsized impact.

I'm an artist, and I like the risk - I'm not in it for the sure things.

It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.

I am in the business of exploring crazy possibilities.

In the United States, there is no project so audacious for which people cannot be found to guarantee the cost and find the working expenses.

I'm a freestyle creative entrepreneur. Not a businessman. I like to create ventures in which creativity stands at the centre.

If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.

I've never consciously done 'safe' commercial projects; luckily, they have done well.

I want something completely new and different to happen, and lots of it. Stuff that makes us change the way we think about a market or the world. Something that inspires a new generation of crazy startups doing crazy things.

Moonshots live in that place between audacious projects and pure science fiction.

My approach is just fearless. I'm not afraid to try anything.

I always wanted to be really experimental.

I never woke up and thought, 'I really want to live a bold life.'

Not everyone is as equally as adventurous as me. I get that.

I have always been adventurous and rather daring.

I've never been very practical or realistic - I've always felt that if a project seems easy, or even attainable, why pursue it?