Top 87 Don't Take Risks Quotes
#1. The thing I preach constantly is do your research; build your knowledge base. Don't just go into business on a whim or a prayer - and don't think 'I'm an entrepreneur so I have to take risks'. Entrepreneurs don't take risks. They take calculated risks; only the good ones.
Theo Paphitis
#2. If we don't take risks in life, the price can sometimes be far higher.
Charles Maclean
#3. If you don't take risks, you won't be able to do anything. I was confident I could use my experience to change and improve the way Macau worked.
Lui Che Woo
#4. If you don't take risks, you don't drink champagne.
Garry Kasparov
#5. Esther was more man than most men I know, myself included. Many of us - men and women - are extremely passive and cowardly. We don't take risks for God because we are obsessed with safety, security, and most of all, with the future.
Kevin DeYoung
#6. If you don't take risks, you'll have a wasted soul.
Drew Barrymore
#7. Most investors say "Don't take risks." The rich investor takes risks.
Robert Kiyosaki
#8. People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
Peter F. Drucker
#10. You can say a lot of things about me, but you can never say I don't take risks.
Diego Maradona
#11. Look before you leap. Don't take risks lightly. Make sure someone is watching your back. Safety is a shifting illusion, move with it," Grandpa recited in Hadadian before leaning forward and adding his own little ending, "And pray. Trust that God knows best, in every situation.
Jessiqua Wittman
#12. Bottom line, you're either a risk taker, or your not, and if you don't take risks, you'll never win big.
Geno Auriemma
#13. You are protected. But if you don't take risks, God will retreat and become only a subject of philosophical speculation ...
Paulo Coelho
#14. Criticism is easier to take when you realize that the only people who aren't criticized are those who don't take risks.
Robert Kiyosaki
#15. I only take risks in couture, but I don't take risks in athleticism.
Andre Leon Talley
#17. If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don't take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#18. If you don't put yourself out there, if you don't take risks, you can't truly feel.
Miranda Kenneally
#19. You will never be stylish if you don't take risks.
Rihanna
#20. Take risks. Take chances. Don't be afraid. You gotta go into life brave.
Billy Joel
#21. But I don't want you to be afraid to take risks. If it's worth it ... If the person in his eyes is the person you want to be, the person you know you could be ... then don't be scared ...
Nicole Peeler
#22. You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing.
Greg LeMond
#23. I don't like taking physical risks at all. I take a lot of emotional risks, and I don't feel like I need to get on a bike or a horse or jump off of anything ever.
Jenny Slate
#24. We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.
James E. Burke
#25. As an actor and director, you have to take risks, even though I don't like saying that word. You can make a mistake.
Jean Dujardin
#26. 'Noah' is about a man whose mission is to obliterate Earth's past and godfather its future. Replacing the word 'God' with 'Creator' and taking other scriptural liberties, the movie risks confusing those who don't take the Bible literally and alienating those who do.
Richard Corliss
#27. I have to say I enjoy physical comedy and I've always loved to kind of take risks. I don't like worrying too much about how I look or how I come across, so that can sometimes ... You know, I like to play those kinds of deluded but fun characters.
Amy Poehler
#28. Don't be intimidated by other people's opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want to do.
Paulo Coelho
#29. Don't be hard on yourself. And take as many chances, risks, as you can.
Robert Plant
#30. If you want to be an innovator, you have to take risks. And sometimes things work and sometimes they don't work ...
Christopher Galvin
#31. Keep your eyes open, take risks, and whenever possible, don't think of things the way everyone else does.
Jon Daniels
#32. You have this one life. How do you wanna spend it? Apologizing? Regretting? Questioning? Hating yourself? Dieting? Running after people who don't see you? Be brave. Believe in yourself. Do what feels good. Take risks. You have this one life. Make yourself proud.
Cara Delevingne
#33. Women don't take enough risks. Men are just 'foot on the gas pedal.' We're not going to close the achievement gap until we close the ambition gap.
Sheryl Sandberg
#34. We have to take risks with art. If we don't, it all becomes a bit boring.
Julie Walters
#35. They aren't afraid to take risks, but they don't gamble. They are generous but not extravagant. They thrive on beauty of economics, the fact that it is both art and science.
Susan Meissner
#36. Take risks. Ask big questions. Don't be afraid to make mistakes; if you don't make mistakes, you're not reaching far enough.
David Packard
#37. If we didn't have greed, market economies wouldn't be as innovative as they are. But in my view, greed has to be contained by the fear of losses, so there has to be a system where, if you take too much risk, you go into bankruptcy. You don't systematically bail out people who take excessive risks.
Nouriel Roubini
#38. I want to show up to work and take risks. I don't ever want to play it safe.
James Badge Dale
#39. Focus on what you want to do. Don't be scared to try stuff. You only live once. Get your mind towards what you want to do and you'll achieve it. It makes it fun. You gotta take risks at times. Risks pay off.
Mark Zupan
#40. There are many who live Life in Fear, without taking risks. They don't take Chances. Alas! Not only are they missing chances, they are missing Life itself! -RVM
R.v.m.
#41. When you experience a failure as a leader, don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks.
Naveen Jain
#42. It's one of the ironies of investing. The rich can afford to take risks, but they don't need to. The poor need to take risks, but they often can't afford to.
Jonathan Clements
#43. I learned to drive when I was 35. I'm driving like an old lady and very close to the wheel. I don't take many risks, and when people yell at me I say 'sorry, sorry, sorry!' I don't have road rage yet.
Michel Gondry
#44. There was a lot of risk taken in the Mercury and Apollo eras, and we don't take those risks anymore. We've designed the systems to eliminate risk, which makes it take forever and cost too much money.
Gwynne Shotwell
#45. Blame is a neat little device that you can use whenever you don't want to take responsibility for something in your life. Use it and you will avoid all risks and impede your own growth.
Wayne Dyer
#46. Textbook survival tells you to stay put. Stop. Wait for rescue. Don't take any risks. But there'd been a whole host of survival shows like that and I didn't really want to do that.
Bear Grylls
#47. There has to be someone who is willing to do it, who is willing to take whatever risks are required. I don't think it can be done with money alone. The person has to be dedicated to the task. There has to be some other motivation.
Cesar Chavez
#48. 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
#49. I've proven I'm courageous. I'm gutsier than anybody; I've got a better imagination than anybody; I'm essentially more creative than any other actor I know, and I've proven I take risks. I don't think I need to prove anything to myself any more.
Michael Keaton
#50. When you don't know the rules, you break them all. It's hard to take big risks when you know the history of an industry and what has worked and what didn't.
Blake Mycoskie
#51. Well, the studios don't really want to take those risks right off the bat. They'll take the risk after they've seen the finished product and say oh yeah we want that. This is a great film but they are hesitant to take the risk when you just see it on paper.
Nia Long
#52. Real teams don't emerge unless individuals on them take risks involving conflict, trust, interdependence and hard work.
John Katzenbach
#53. You're not afraid to take risks." "Neither are you, Diana. Don't ever lose that quality. Once a person stops pushing and growing, she is as dead in the spirit as if she were dead in the flesh.
Kate Elliott
#54. Things might not go as planned, but at the end of the day it's up to me to take the risks and do what I love most. And I don't owe anybody an explanation. My journey is my journey.
Janelle Monae
#55. Time plays no favorites and will pass whether you act or not. Take control of your life. Dare to dream and take risks...Compete! If you aren't willing to work for you goals, don't expect others to! Believe in yourself.
Anonymous
#56. The Moulin Rouge is, like the West Village and the Nasdaq, one of those places that people who don't like to take risks come to for the thrill of being on the spot where risks once were taken.
Michael Lewis
#57. Bands are more willing to take risks and we don't need this big label over us anymore telling us what it means to sell records and get into magazines.
Mat McNerney
#58. Don't be afraid to take risks. Make the most of your journey. Make it fun and exciting.
Bernie Williams
#59. I think if you don't regret a few things, you didn't take enough risks in life.
Lauren Gallagher
#60. You've got to believe in yourself first. Take risks and don't be afraid to fall.
Mary Lou Retton
#61. You have to believe in yourself and you have to take risks. You know how people say 30 is new 20 and 40 is new 30? Well I think essentially what that's telling us is there are so many opportunities out there, you don't have to rush into something.
Jay Ellis
#62. You miss 100% of the shots that you don't take. Still wondering whether it is worth giving a shot at your dreams?
Manoj Arora
#63. A surprise visit? That's so romantic...but fairly risky."
"If you don't take any risks, life will bass you by," Cunco shipped in.
Nina George
#64. Freelancers are 'free' because they take risks - they don't like being told what to do. That's both exciting and daunting, because you have to police you.
Chris Hardwick
#65. Do what you love. Live fearlessly and take risks. Don't take no for an answer from anyone - go ahead and prove the naysayers wrong. Believe that anything can be possible.
Caroline Leavitt
#66. What I find really interesting is to try and mix it up, to push myself and try different things. I don't want to stay in my comfort zone. I want to take risks and keep myself scared.
Michael Fassbender
#67. When you don't have anything to lose, you discover something wonderful: you're free to take great risks without fear or reservation.
Tullian Tchividjian
#68. You keep saying words like crazy and insane and risky, but Vera, the best things in life are all of those things. You can't reap big rewards if you don't take big risks.
Rachel Higginson
#69. Those who don't want to take risks in life end up been the losers.
Sunday Adelaja
#70. Life doesn't send out invitations. Don't wait. Take risks. Be unforgettable. Be happy and live.
Kate Mathias
#71. People who refuse to take risks live with a feeling of dread that is far more severe than what they would feel if they took the risks necessary to make them less helpless - only they don't know it!
Susan Jeffers
#72. Don't hold back in your writing. Take risks. Go ahead and tackle that crazy idea that you think will never fly, because that may be the one that makes you stand out from the crowd. Keep pushing the envelope.
Carrie Vaughn
#73. I live my life openly and freely every day anyway, and do what I want to do, but I don't take any great risks.
John Barrowman
#74. My motto in life is 'Take risks;' you don't have a voice if you don't. You have to venture outside your boundaries. That's what life's all about.
Kelly Wearstler
#75. I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.
Warren Farrell
#76. I love actresses who are brave and don't do what's expected of them or don't play off how they look or take risks.
Kelly Reilly
#77. Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.
Waylon Jennings
#78. I like to take risks and do weird things and stuff that's not normal compared to other Hollywood movies. Not stuff that's totally avant garde and daring, but doing stuff that's in other languages and not using stars and using real people - things that they generally don't do in mainstream films.
Eli Roth
#79. I don't think I ever take huge risks, though I'm not scared of doing so.
Kevin Costner
#80. When you take risks and things don't go your way, you can be heavily criticised by the media.
Kapil Dev
#81. 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
#82. I'll tell you one thing I know for sure," he'd said. "You only have one life. Whatever you decide to do, you should try and be happy. Don't be afraid to take risks.
Dalia Jurgensen
#83. I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing publishers. They don't seem to want to take too many risks with living people.
Kenneth Anger
#84. Don't hide who you are. It'll come out somehow, some day, and you'll have struggled with it for nothing. Take chances and risks. Make mistakes. Especially now.
Jessica Hawkins
#85. The single biggest reason why the vast majority of people go nowhere in life is because they don't or won't take risks. They take the easy way out, the path of least resistance. You don't make it big that way. Ever.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#86. In a world that's changing so quickly, you're guaranteed to fail if you don't take any risks.
Mark Zuckerberg
#87. Don't be afraid to take risks, for you take them every day without realizing it. I'd rather fail at trying something new or different than to lose just for not trying at all.
Bianca McCormick-Johnson
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