Taking Calculated Risks Quotes

You've got to be closer to the edge than ever to win. That means sometimes you go over the edge, and I don't mean driving, either.

If you want to do things – to change things – you must run the risk of not succeeding.

Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.

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.

If you don't take a chance-you won't have a chance.

Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

The one thing I learned is to just give everything a shot. You don't want to live in regret.

If you stay by the book, it's not always going to work. You've got to venture off a little bit. But you can't get too reckless, either.

We've become a country that is often risk averse. That's not the way to succeed.

Ironically, in a changing world, playing it safe is one of the riskiest things you can do.

Be cautious, but not too cautious; do not be too much afraid of making a mistake; a man who never makes a mistake will make nothing.

If you aren't making any mistakes, it's a sure sign you're playing it too safe.

A risk-free life is far from being a healthy life.

Going after anything worthwile in life entailed risk, of course. A man of ambition and courage didn't let that stop or delay him. A man accepted the dangers, the element of chance. If he didn't, he won nothing.

A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.

I am of the opinion that the boldest measures are the safest.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do ... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.

When you're in school, every little mistake is a permanent crack in your windshield. But in the real world, if you're not swerving around and hitting the guard rails every now and then, you're not going fast enough. Your biggest risk isn't failing; it's getting too comfortable.

It is much better to tempt fortune where it can favor you than to see your certain ruin by not tempting it.

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

I believe one is not going to get anywhere by sitting and planning too much. The point is to keep doing, and what will happen will happen.

I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don't know what you're doing.

Since my professional debut, I've always had a risky game.

Some people say that you should not tempt fate and for them I cannot disagree, but I never learned anything from playing it safe. I say fate should not tempt me.