Quotes about Risk

If you choose to face conflict head on, it is full of risks and the potential for great hurt, but it can also be redemptive.

And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame

I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.

If the means to a well-lived life is to take the road less traveled, first you have to get on the road.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Have no fear of moving into the unknown.

Do what you fear and fear disappears.

4. If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

5. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

In an age of so many people getting hurt in real estate, it shows that you can still do well in real estate.

The corporate approach to agriculture or manufacturing or medicine or war increasingly undertakes to help at the risk of harm, sometimes of great harm. And once the risk of harm is appraised as "acceptable," the result often is absurdity: We destroy a village in order to save it; we destroy freedom in order to save it; we destroy the world in order to live in it.

When something is new and hard and bright, there ought to be something a little better for it than just being safe, since the safe things are just the things that folks have been doing so long they have worn the edges off and there's nothing to the doing of them that leaves a man to say, That was not done before and it cannot be done again.