150 Risk And Success Quotes

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Famous Risk And Success Quotes

You can not achieve success without the risk of failure. If you are not afraid to fail, than you have a chance, but you are never going to get there unless you risk it. — Paul Heyman

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important. — Ellen DeGeneres

The key to success is having the courage to take risks and not be afraid of failure. — Joe Rogan

You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future. — Dr. An Wang

Failure changes for the better, success for the worse. — Seneca The Elder

With some businesses, you cannot avoid risk, and sometimes you do not succeed. — Bernard Arnault

If you don't risk anything you risk everything — Mark Zuckerberg

Take risks and you'll get the payoffs. Learn from your mistakes until you succeed. — Bobby Flay

Success is a combination of determination and courage. — Nirmal Purja

Failure is success in progress — Albert Einstein

Failure is inevitable. Success is elusive. — Steven Spielberg

Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear. — Lao Tzu

Success is its own reward, but failure is a great teacher too, and not to be feared. — Sonia Sotomayor

We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures. — James Burke

We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures. — James E. Burke

Short Risk And Success Quotes

  • Success is always stressful. — Andrew Tate
  • You have to be willing to take risk in order to achieve greatness. — Raoul Pal
  • Success takes communication, collaboration and, sometimes, failure. — Jessica Alba
  • The struggle is guaranteed, the success is not. — Tom Bilyeu
  • The process of growing and learning always involves risk. — Nido R Qubein
  • If you want to be successful, you must either have a chance or take one. — Unknown
  • Risk equals reward; if you don’t take risks, you won’t get rewards. — Nirmal Purja
  • Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal. — Don Francis
  • Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal. — Don Shula
  • Success breeds a disregard of the possibility of failure. — Hyman Minsky
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Risk Taking And Success Quotes

I'm not the guy who's afraid of failure. I like to take risks, take the big shot and all that. — Stephen Curry

The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed. — Gordon Parks

Be honest: Would you be as successful if you followed all the rules and always behaved and never took chances? No, you’d be just like everyone else, scared about failing and worried about being liked. — Tim Grover

You're never going to see any success if you don't take risks with your time and money. Losing money is a part of the process. It's your real-life tuition. — Jaspreet Singh

This is how civilizations decline. They quit taking risks. Every year there are more referees and fewer doers. When you’ve had success for too long, you lose the desire to take risks. — Elon Musk

Enormous self-belief, intuition, the ability to take a risk at a critical moment and go in for a very dangerous play with counter-chances for the opponent - it is precisely these qualities that distinguish great players. — Garry Kasparov

You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you're doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle. — George Lucas

Embrace accountability and take business risks under your own name. Society will reward you with responsibility, equity, and leverage. — Naval Ravikant

He who will not risk cannot win. — John Paul Jones

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act. — Andre Malraux

What Is Success Quotes

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. — Albert Schweitzer

The most important ingredient of leadership is character. Most of the proficiencies can be learned, but what's inside you is something that's difficult to change. — Jesse Robredo

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. - Dale Carnegie

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. — Dale Carnegie

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place. — Nora Roberts

The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. — George S. Patton

A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. — Bob Dylan

Good athletes do not know what tiredness is. They do not know what discouragement is. Good athletes only know what victory is. — Fidel Castro

Success in science and scientific work come not through the provision of unlimited or big resources, but in the wise and careful selection of problems and objectives. Above all, what is required is hard sustained work and dedication. — Lal Bahadur Shastri

What I tell people is be the best version of yourself in anything that you do. You don't have to live anybody else's story. — Stephen Curry

What is success? It is being able to go to bed each night with your soul at peace. — Paulo Coelho

Risks And Taking Chances Quotes

I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass. — Jim Harrison

Don’t listen to others, You need to take chances and you need to take the risk sometimes in order to make things happen for yourself. — Nirmal Purja

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. - Helen Keller

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. — Helen Keller

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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. — Patrick Warburton

Take risks, take chances, and never be afraid to fail—it’s part of life. — Joe Rogan

Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves. — Walter Anderson

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves. — Walter Anderson

A ship is always safe at the shore - but that is NOT what it is built for. — Albert Einstein

Risk And Reward Quotes

Radical obedience to Christ is not easy... It's not comfort, not health, not wealth, and not prosperity in this world. Radical obedience to Christ risks losing all these things. But in the end, such risk finds its reward in Christ. And he is more than enough for us. — David Platt

Our corporate executives speculate with their shareholders’ assets because they get big personal rewards when they win—and even if they lose, they are often bailed out with public funds by obedient politicians. We privatize profit and socialize risk. — Edward O. Thorp

If I could only own one asset for the next 10 years, it would be bitcoin $BTC It encapsulates all of my larger macro views and feels like the point on the far horizon we are headed to, in some shape or form. Yes, like gold too and many other things but BTC risk/reward beats all. — Raoul Pal

You don't climb mountains without a team, you don't climb mountains without being fit, you don't climb mountains without being prepared and you don't climb mountains without balancing the risks and rewards. And you never climb a mountain on accident - it has to be intentional. — Mark Udall

The rewards go to the risk-takers, those who are willing to put their egos on the line and reach out to other people and to a richer, fuller life for themselves. — Susan RoAne

The Universe rewards calculated risk and passion — Joe Rogan

Every day, you'll have opportunities to take chances and to work outside your safety net. Sure, it's a lot easier to stay in your comfort zone.. in my case, business suits and real estate.. but sometimes you have to take risks. When the risks pay off, that's when you reap the biggest rewards. — Donald Trump

The biggest rewards in life are found outside your comfort zone. Live with it. Fear and risk are prerequisites if you want to enjoy a life of success and adventure. — Jack Canfield

The common objection to seniority pay is, "It's rewarding dead wood!" My response is, "Why do you hire dead wood? Or why do you hire live wood and kill it?" — Peter R. Scholtes

The reality is that I need to be challenged and interested, as long as the risk and reward is in line. — Sam Zell

Chance And Risk Quotes

Men Wanted for Dangerous Expedition: Low Wages for Long Hours of Arduous Labour under Brutal Conditions; Months of Continual Darkness and Extreme Cold; Great Risk to Life and Limb from Disease, Accidents and Other Hazards; Small Chance of Fame in Case of Success. — Ernest Shackleton

I can say that the risk-benefit ratio for those 18 and below doesn't justify vaccines and there's a pretty good chance that it doesn't justify vaccination in these very young adults. — Robert W. Malone

My definition of success is doing what you love. I feel many people do things because they feel they have to, and are hesitant to risk following their passion. — Tony Hawk

A problem never exists in isolation; it is surrounded by other problems in space and time. The more of the context of a problem that a scientist can comprehend, the greater are his chances of finding a truly adequate solution. — Russell L. Ackoff

Research shows that when people get less than 7 hours of sleep per night, their chance of catching a cold triples, they report as much as 30% lower rates of wellbeing, risk of obesity soars, and they have less control over their hunger urges. — Dan Buettner

Nobody can really guarantee the future. The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them and then make our plans with confidence. — Henry Ford II

I've been thinking a lot lately about taking chances, and how it's really just about overcoming your fears. Because the truth is, everytime you take a big risk in your life, no matter how it ends up, you're always glad you took it. — Dr. John

Recovery begins with embracing our pain and taking the risk to share it with others. We do this by joining a group and talking about our pain. — John Bradshaw

Leap, and the net will appear. — Julia Margaret Cameron

The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it. — Roger Babson

Adventure And Risk Quotes

The most dangerous risk of all - the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later. — Randy Komisar

John F. Kennedy once said, ‘There are risks and costs to action.  But they are far less than the long-range risks of comfortable inaction.’ — Pat Flynn

Risk means uncertainty about which outcomes will occur and about the possibility of loss when the unfavorable ones do. — Howard S. Marks

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure. — Helen Keller

I believe that to do anything in this world one needs a love for risk and adventure, and above all, to be able to do without what middle-class families call "future." — Joan Miro

Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing. — Friedrich Schiller

Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks. — Isabel Allende

Following Christ is a wild adventure full or risk, frustration, excitement, and setbacks. It is not an evening stroll in a planned community along a well-manicured path. — Larry Crabb

I don't want to waste the precious moments I have, and I've felt that way since I was 17. I have to take risks because why else would you be alive? Put your pirate patch on and go on an adventure because you only have one life to live. — Kathleen Hanna

What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success And Failure Quotes

When i started flirting with the hustle, failure became my ex, now I'm engaged to the game and married to success. — Lil Wayne

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. — Colin Powell

Confidence and Hard work is the best medicine to kill the disease called failure. It will make you successful person. — Abdul Kalam

When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success. — Sayings

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. — Michelangelo

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results. — Dupree Jordan

Celebrate your success and find humor in your failures. Don't take yourself so seriously. Loosen up and everyone around you will loosen up. Have fun and always show enthusiasm. When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song. — Sam Walton

The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action. - Alexander Graham Bell

The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action. — Alexander Graham Bell

We will not have failure - only success and new learning. — Queen Victoria

Risk Taking Quotes

Maybe you will be afraid and maybe you will fail, but the courage to take risks in any part of your life is, I feel, a very worthwhile way to live. — Emile Hirsch

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. - Muhammad Ali

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. — Muhammad Ali

Take Risks in Your Life If you Win, U Can Lead! If You Lose, You can Guide! - Swami Vivekananda

Take Risks in Your Life If you Win, U Can Lead! If You Lose, You can Guide! — Swami Vivekananda

Love is such a powerful force. It's there for everyone to embrace-that kind of unconditional love for all of humankind. That is the kind of love that impels people to go into the community and try to change conditions for others, to take risks for what they believe in. — Coretta Scott King

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed. — Ernest Hemingway

The biggest risk is not taking any risk. — Mark Zuckerberg

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along. — Lisa Alther

To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk. — Mark Rothko

Those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. LOVE is stronger than fear, life stronger than death, hope stronger than despair. We have to trust that the risk of loving is always worth taking. — Henri Nouwen

Great things are achieved only when we take great risks. — Frederick the Great

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More Risk And Success Quotes

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult — Seneca

Awareness, price and value, successful risk dealing — Howard Marks

I've found that a lot of successful poker players grew up poor. And I'm convinced that poor people have a risk tolerance that rich people don't have because poor people fundamentally don't value money that much because they're used to not having it. — Chamath Palihapitiya

We've climbed in 60 to 75 kilometer an hour wind conditions without ropes, and yes we put in fixed lines when we can because of the safety. But it's all calculated risk and you have to be so flexible in doing this project, and that's why we've been so successful. We always climb with what we have. — Nirmal Purja

Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather than risk failure, they prefer to create conditions that make success impossible, a reflex that of course creates a vicious cycle. — James Surowiecki

The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore. — Dale Carnegie

You need to be uncomfortable and apprehensive: True strategy is about placing bets and making hard choices. The objective is not to eliminate risk but to increase the odds of success. — Roger Martin

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act. — Maxwell Maltz

An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes. — Victor Kiam

At the risk bragging, one of the things I'm best at is riding coattails. Behind every successful man is me, smiling and taking partial credit. — Aziz Ansari

If there is a trait which does characterize leaders it is opportunism. Successful people are very often those who steadfastly refuse to be daunted by disadvantage and have the ability to turn disadvantage to good effect. They are people who seize opportunity and take risks. Leadership then seems to be a matter of personality and character. — John Viney

The most consistently successful commanders, when faced by an enemy in a position that was strong naturally or materially, have hardly ever tackled it in a direct way. And when, under pressure of circumstances, they have risked a direct attack, the result has commonly been to blot their record with a failure. — B. H. Liddell Hart

Success also requires the courage to risk disapproval. Most independent thought, new ideas, or endeavors beyond the common measure are greeted with disapproval, and ranging from skepticism and ridicule to violent outrage. To persevere in anything exceptional requires inner strength and the unshakable conviction that you are right. — Chin-Ning Chu

In financial services, if you want to be the best in the industry, you first have to be the best in risk management and credit quality. It's the foundation for every other measure of success. There's almost no room for error. — John G. Stumpf

Unlucky people are stuck in routines. When they see something new, they want no part of it. Lucky people always want something new. They're prepared to take risks and relaxed enough to see the opportunities in the first place. — Richard Wiseman

In order to succeed, you have to live dangerously.. as long as the danger is rationally accepted and as long as the rewards far outweigh the risk. — Sumner Redstone

A successful economy depends on the proliferation of the rich, on creating a large class of risk-taking men who are willing to shun the easy channels of a comfortable life in order to create new enterprise, win huge profits, and invest them again. — George Gilder

Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets. — Victor Kiam

Think big and don't listen to people who tell you it can't be done. Life's too short to think small. — Tim Ferriss

You just have to change. To be successful, what you have to do is have an acceptance of risk and you have to be pretty explicit about that, because if you don’t accept risk, you don’t get any innovation. And that means part of risk is you have to accept failure because not everything works. — Michael Dell

To love is to risk not being loved in return. — Leo Buscaglia

The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. — Oprah Winfrey

Managing risk is very different from managing strategy. Risk management focuses on the negative-threats and failures rather than opportunities and successes. — Robert S. Kaplan

Frequent risk-takers have had their fair shares of failures and successes, hence, being confident in reaching their goals, they will usually seem insensitive to whether or not they look foolish or cool to other people. — Criss Jami

Immigration keeps this country young, it keeps it dynamic, we have entrepreneurs and strivers who come here and are willing to take risks, and that's part of the reason why America historically has been successful. — Barack Obama

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