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• If you’re not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

  Ray Kroc

  Topics in Business, Risk

  Tags in Hell

• The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.

  A. R. Ammons

  Topics in Risk

  Tags in Poet, Learned

• It’s not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.

  Candice Bergen

  Topics in Risk

  Tags in Women, Hollywood

• To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work, is as impossible as it is to live without being born.

  A. P. Gouthev

  Topics in Experience, Risk

  Tags in Impossible, Profit, Reward
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  Risk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.

  Warren Buffett

  Topics in God, Risk

  Tags in Game

• It’s also that comedians don’t have the kind of narcissism that actors have. They’re writers who perform their own material. It’s more interesting. And they’re s*xy because they risk more. Stand-up comedians risk more than anyone.

  Rachel Weisz

  Topics in Risk, Uncategorized

  Tags in Comedian

• The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence.

  Byron White

  Topics in Risk

  Tags in Serious

• The only risk we run is by doing nothing.

  Brian Higgins

  Topics in Risk

  Tags in Doing

• Creative people who can’t help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.

  R. D. Laing

  Topics in Risk

  Tags in Help, People

• It’s risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early.

  Unknown

  Topics in Risk

  Tags in Risky, Pose, Early, Greater, Late, Home, Even, Too, Sometimes, Man, Marriage, Come

• Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.

  William Feather

  Topics in Risk

  Tags in Assertion

• The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.

  Winston Churchill

  Topics in Risk

  Tags in Defends

• To fly, we have to have resistance.

  Maya Lin

  Topics in Achievement, Attitude, Risk, Success

  Tags in Difficulties

• The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

  Winston Churchill

  Topics in Opportunity, Risk

  Tags in Hope, Security, Difficulties

• Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Topics in Power, Risk

  Tags in Greatness, Reward, Choice, Difference

• Whales only get harpooned when they come to the surface, and turtles can only move forward when they stick their neck out, but investors face risk no matter what they do.

  Charles Jaffe

  Topics in Movies, Risk

  Tags in Turtles, Stick, Investors, Surface, Their, Get, Only, Out, Face, Neck, Forward, Whale, Come, Matter

• Life is “trying things to see if they work.”

  Ray Bradbury

  Topics in Life, Risk

  Tags in Creativity

• It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

  Edward de Bono

  Topics in Failure, Risk

  Tags in Creativity

• Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

  Erich Fromm

  Topics in Risk

  Tags in Doubt/Uncertainty, Courage, Creativity

• The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

  Charles DuBois

  Topics in Risk, Sacrifice

  Tags in Change/Growth, Courage