Risk Taking Quotes

"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed." "Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." "It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home." "Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn’t have the courage to say yes” to life?" "When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a huge bet he made, and it worked." "Entrepreneurship is like eating glass and walking on hot coals at the same time." "Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it." "The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore." "What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?" "Life is lived on the edge." "If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away." "Sometimes we measure things and see that in the short term they actually hurt sales, and we do it anyway." "If you decide that you’re going to do only the things you know are going to work, you’re going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table." "No customer was asking for Echo. This was definitely us wandering. Market research doesn’t help." "To invent you have to experiment, and if you know in advance that it’s going to work, it’s not an experiment."