Calculated Risks Quotes

No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary.

If everything you do works, then you're not taking many risks and probably aren't innovating either.

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.

Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance... But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.

I was told, 'Your career's made by what you don't do,' and that always stuck with me. I drive my agent mad!

I have to take decisions—not back hunches.

Risks, I like to say, always pay off. You learn what to do, or what not to do.

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

Great victory requires great risk. -Hera

Don't ever make the same mistake twice unless it pays.

You've got to take risks if you're going to succeed. I would much rather ask forgiveness than permission.

I don't ever feel cautious about making plays. I tell myself that injuries are more likely to occur if I try to play safe.

You can't run a business without taking risks. The brave may not live forever - but the cautious do not live at all!

I do wonder whether the bigger the game is, the more the risks that David Luiz decides to take.

Taking smart risks can be very gratifying.

Playing things too safe is the most popular way to fail.

I’ve found that nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks.

I had someone very close to me say to me that hopefully I’ll have many more ups and downs, not in just my career but in life. If you don’t have that, you’re not taking enough risks.

Talented people have a responsibility to get the training they need to be successful risk takers and go out there to take risks. What I see is surplus of talented people and a shortage of people willing to take the risks.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

The ones who make it, are the ones who manage risk.

The only safe thing is to take a chance. Play safe and you are dead. Taking risks is the essence of good work, and the difference between safe and bold can only be defined by yourself since no one else knows for what you are hoping when you embark on anything.

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.