Quotes about Risk

I want to go after dreams that are destined to fail without diving intervention.

You can either avoid making mistakes and play not to lose, or you can make the most of every opportunity and play to win.

One of the mistakes we make as parents and as leaders is this: we do everything within our power to create emotional and relational and spiritual biospheres. We avoid conflict. We mitigate risk. We minimize discomfort. We sidestep sacrifice. Then we wonder why people grow to a certain stature and stop. We wonder why leaders fall.

Maximum improbability equals maximum possibility.

In every dream journey, there comes a moment when you have to quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.

The defining moments will double as the scariest decisions.

Behold, the fool saith, Put not all thine eggs in the one basket, -- which is but a manner of saying, Scatter your money and your attention, but the wise man saith, Put all your eggs in the one basket and -- watch that basket.

Don't shortchange the future, because of fear in the present.

The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk. And even more — if more should be required — the future of human civilization is at stake.

Aviation records don't fall until someone is willing to mortgage the present for the future.

Your goal is to launch an imperfect product and let people laugh at you.

Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo.