Quotes About Risks Taking

#1. For me, I believe comedy's about taking risks, taking chances, working in a safe environment where you're comfortable making a fool of yourself. It's so critical, especially in comedy, to just have all those right pieces in place.

Michael Spiller

#2. Life is all about risks, taking chances. It doesn't matter how safe and comfortable you want things to be. They never are. - Brooke Hart

Kathleen O'Reilly

#3. Sometimes I feel an obligation to be accessible as a personality, but for me the driving force since the beginning has always been good work, taking risks, trying new things. If the door opens, go through it. Always go forwards.

David Soul

#4. I'm a firm believer in taking risks in life, because you'll never get anywhere unless you do, and the more risk involved the greater the outcome
or the worse, but you never know so you've got to go for it.

Famke Janssen

#5. You can't outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little sidebets about the outcome of life. either you wade in and risk everything you have to play the game or you don't play at all. and if u don't play u can't win.

Judith McNaught

#6. Successful business people became successful because they took risks. The biggest risk is that once successful, they stop taking risks.

G.R. Gopinath

#7. Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes and having fun

Mary Lou Cook

#8. Thus, in this world of brief scenes from the future, few risks are taken. Those who have seen the future do not need to take risks, and those who have not yet seen the future wait for their visions without taking risks.

Alan Lightman

#9. With all the risks they were taking, love was probably the most dangerous choice of all.

Kristin Hannah

#10. I always think it's silly when people talk about works of culture taking risks. Because there's not any risk involved.

Daniel Handler

#11. Doing good required taking risks.

Ted Dekker

#12. If people are always comfortable with you, you're probably not telling them the whole truth.

Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel

#13. Career progression often depends upon taking risks and advocating for oneself - traits that girls are discouraged from exhibiting. This may explain why girls' academic gains have not yet translated into significantly higher numbers of women in top jobs.

Sheryl Sandberg

#14. There are many reasons to avoid taking risks. Friendship is not among them.

Janny Wurts

#15. Being an artist is not exactly the most universally respected, or secure thing to do with your life. It can be frightening and you can feel that you're taking a lot of risks just with your own life, and your family's security. But the rewards outweigh those things.

Joan Osborne

#16. Neither man nor any animal can enjoy life to the full without taking some risks to life or limb.

Philip Brown

#17. Escape the safety of the small by taking the risks to become part of something bigger. Your true self demands it. Listen for the timer on the oven to sound-that's when the memory curtain parts, flashing moments that really mattered.

Kirby Wright

#18. In order to fly you have to create space in the open air so that your wings can really spread out. It's like a parachute. They only work from a high altitude. To fly you have to begin taking risks. If you don't want to, maybe the best thing is just to give up, and keep walking forever.

Jorge Bucay

#19. The most critical risk of all, is not taking the risk if means be dangerous.

Anthony Liccione

#20. Risks may make you win, or they will make you learn. Either of the benefits is worth daring for.

Israelmore Ayivor

#21. Not taking risks one doesn't understand is often the best form of risk management.

Raghuram G. Rajan

#22. To allow your organization the permission to fail is a very powerful thing. If we want to really be thought leaders and industry leaders, it doesn't come without taking risks. We're not afraid to take those risks that will get us to a better place.

Rick Welts

#23. individual risk taking, especially in the domain of risks to life and health.

Richard H. Thaler

#24. When I was 16, the guest speaker was King. And I was completely overwhelmed because I had been studying nonviolence, talking about it, reading about it, but here it was happening, here it was people boycotting the buses and people on the streets and taking risks, which I think was the key.

Joan Baez

#25. Novice Traders trade 5 to 10 times too big. They are taking 5 to 10% risks on a trade they should be taking 1 to 2 percent risks.

Bruce Kovner

#26. People are always going to find fault with anything you do, any process that you're a part of. The creative process means taking risks, I've taken risks and I've made mistakes, but the bottom line is, could anyone else have done any better ? I have to believe that what I created was worthwhile.

Zach Braff

#27. If you're experiencing no anxiety or discomfort, the risk you're taking probably isn't worthy of you. The only risks that aren't a little scary are the ones you've outgrown.

Price Pritchett

#28. I was not willing to give up because I was born to like taking risks and that is my way of life.

Alain Robert

#29. JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE TOO SCARED TO TAKE ANY RISKS DOESN'T MEAN THE REST OF US SHOULD BE.

Cammie McGovern

#30. I'm taking probably the biggest risk of my career in playing the part in Filth. If you stop taking risks, then you get bored, or you just keep playing the same part, over and over again. Eventually audiences get bored of that, as well.

James McAvoy

#31. When it comes to storytelling, not taking risks is riskier than swinging for the fences. I have very simple ambitions when it comes to taking risks in storytelling and programming. I try very hard to avoid the expected.

David Nevins

#32. A high degree of autonomy is what permits innovation, experimentation and risk taking in a bureaucracy. If the slightest mistake can end a career, then no one will ever take risks.

Francis Fukuyama

#33. The heart of the 2008 financial crisis was a coterie of reckless financial executives, working for too-big-to-fail financial companies, who were handsomely compensated for taking risks that almost ruined the economy when they failed.

Gary Weiss

#34. You cannot simply tap your creative nature once and then expect to be done with it. It is a lifelong process: a continual commitment to being open to possibility, trusting your instincts, experimenting, taking risks, and revising.

Fran Sorin

#35. Believing in yourself and what you do is so important. It took me a long time to find that confidence. If you're an artist and you're taking risks, then you're doing something right if some people don't get it.

Kate Voegele

#36. You can't let the fear of failure keep you from taking the risks that you know are the right ones to take.

S. Usher Evans

#37. I'm in love with love, so I'm always taking risks! I think it's part of love, taking risks.

Melanie Laurent

#38. The most important thing to do is to take risks. The risks are where breakthroughs happen, and big shifts take you to new places and create opportunities. They can be really scary and intimidating, but that means it is taking you out of your comfort zone. All designers look at life through a

Sophia Amoruso

#39. One day you'll notice something different and if you take advantage of that moment, you will be what you exactly needed to be.

Auliq Ice

#40. I like taking risks and I decided to put every bit of me into the role.

Sherilyn Fenn

#41. If you're not getting any bad reviews, you're not taking enough risks

Susan Egan

#42. I don't believe in pitfalls. I believe in taking risks and not doing the same thing twice.

Guy Laliberte

#43. Finnish companies tend to be very traditional, not taking many risks. Silicon Valley is completely different: people here really live on the edge.

Linus Torvalds

#44. I'm an adventurer. I believe in being bold and brave - and taking risks. Even if I'm afraid of something, I'll still have a go at it.

Monique Coleman

#45. She was resolved to take the risk of being happy.

Guillaume Musso

#46. I think many people go to business school and learn ways to play it safe, ensuring that they avoid some of the pain that entrepreneurs endure while taking less calculated risks.

Sophia Amoruso

#47. I think you make impacts by taking risks.

Shenae Grimes

#48. There is freedom in stepping out and taking risks when you know at any given moment, you can always begin again.

Eva Gregory

#49. Regret is for those who fear taking risks.

Sheila Renee Parker

#50. Failure is inevitable. If you aren't taking risks, then you won't fail.

Cara Santana

#51. Commit yourself to taking enough risks that you will fail some of the time. If you're not failing, we're not doing something sufficiently difficult or creative.

Scott Berkun

#52. Stupidity is actually in a way the mark of intelligence - if you're not doing stupid things that defy logic you're probably not taking enough risks.

Gregor Collins

#53. On films, you have the liberty of working out the details, the psychology, taking maybe more risks and takes than you can in television just because you can't be figuring things out on the day.

Rami Malek

#54. Playing it safe and taking no risks is a shortcut to poverty

Jordan Belfort

#55. If someone is always to blame, if every time something goes wrong someone has to be punished, people quickly stop taking risks. Without risks, there can't be breakthroughs.

Peter Diamandis

#56. You have to take risks if you want to master a craft. Taking risks means screwing up. Show me someone who's never made a colossal mistake, and I'll show you someone who's never created a masterpiece. If

L.A. Witt

#57. As I look back on my own life, I recognize this simple truth: The greatest opportunities were the scariest lions. Part of me has wanted to play it safe, but I've learned that taking no risks is the greatest risk of all.

Mark Batterson

#58. Like it or not taking risks, by a total commitment to the mountain and the vagaries of the weather, is essential for the greater satisfaction to be derived from mountaineering.

Doug Scott

#59. It is worth taking the leap for something you have always wanted to do because until you try you'll never know. Through the experiences I have had and the risks I have taken, I have gained courage and confidence. I didn't start with the courage and confidence. I started with the risk.

Laura Davies

#60. I had someone very close to me say to me that hopefully I'll have many more ups and downs, not in just my career but in life. If you don't have that, you're not taking enough risks.

Taylor Kitsch

#61. My two biggest lessons learned as a trader are take risks and get comfortable with taking losses and setbacks to help move you forward.

Brandon Stanton

#62. Doing what you're afraid of, getting out of your comfort zone, taking risks like that- that's what life is.

Amy Poehler

#63. Every person, young or old, risks the possibility of their life not turning out as planned. Especially when it comes to marriage. They might find they aren't suited for marriage after all. Or their spouses might die of an early illness. Taking a risk on another person is what marriage is all about.

Sabrina Jeffries

#64. it's only through taking risks that success can be found.

Jamie Bautista

#65. There's a real danger in trying to stay king of the mountain. You stop taking risks, you stop being as creative, because you're trying to maintain a position. Apart from anything else that really takes the fun out of it.

Sissy Spacek

#66. It's very important for people to know themselves and understand what their value system is, because if you don't know what your value system is, then you don't know what risks are worth taking and which ones are worth avoiding.

Ben Carson

#67. Taking smart risks can be very gratifying.

Reed Hastings

#68. I am enough (worthiness versus shame). I've had enough (boundaries versus one-uping and comparison). Showing up, taking risks, and letting myself be seen is enough (engagement versus disengagement).

Brene Brown

#69. I don't think there's any story worth dying for, but I do think there are stories worth taking risks for.

Anthony Shadid

#70. One doesn't accept bad challenges. Part of it is always the risk-taking without seeing that the risks are rational and the rewards are commensurate.. are more than commensurate.. with the risks.

Sumner Redstone

#71. I'm uncomfortable when I'm comfortable. I have to start something new-in the agency or in my personal life-every two years or so. Taking risks gives me energy. I can't help it, it's my personality. I'd like to think it's not really a compulsion toward high risks, but the spirit of an entrepreneur.

Jay Chiat

#72. I feel that when you care about your music, taking risks is something you should do to keep things exciting.

Drake

#73. If your life is ever going to get better, you'll have to take risks. There is simply no way you can grow without taking chances.

David Viscott

#74. I really like Jason Blum a lot. We're friends, and while we make wildly disparate films, we share a philosophy about low-budget filmmaking, about taking chances on young filmmaking, taking risks and obliterating our salary so we can make something cheaply and if it wins everyone wins big.

Mark Duplass

#75. The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther King. It was thousands and thousands - millions, I should say - of people taking risks, becoming leaders in their community.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#76. Taking risks and making choices is what makes life so exciting.

Amy Poehler

#77. In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.

Criss Jami

#78. If you go to a film festival and watch a bunch of features and then watch a bunch of shorts, you will almost always find that the shorts are where people are taking more risks and pushing more boundaries ... simply because they have much less to lose.

Don Hertzfeldt

#79. All the best writers take risks, offend people often and say fuck you to the critics.

Carla H. Krueger

#80. Research is a way of taking calculated risks to bring about incalculable consequences.

Celia Green

#81. Take a risk on messy. Live Fearlessly. Love recklessly. Most of all, just love.

Julie Johnson

#82. Some people revel in taking risks, and some go through life taking no risks at all.

Nicholas Winton

#83. I largely agree with those that hold that Government should not in general interfere with the course of the economy merely on the strength of its own commercial judgment. If we cannot rely on the judgment of individual businessmen, taking their own risks, we have no future anyway.

John James Cowperthwaite

#84. An ambitious man needs to know when to take risks.

Auliq Ice

#85. People who are committing and taking risks become the king and queen of my prom.

Amy Poehler

#86. Taking risks, choosing growth, challenging ourselves, and asking for promotions (with smiles on our faces, of course) are all important elements of managing a career.

Sheryl Sandberg

#87. When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.

Ellen DeGeneres

#88. Be willing to step outside your comfort zone once in a while; take the risks in life that seem worth taking. The ride might not be as predictable if you'd just planted your feet and stayed put, but it will be a heck of a lot more interesting.

Edward Whitacre Jr.

#89. Men like honesty when it favours them.

Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel

#90. You can't lead without taking risk.

Andy Stanley

#91. Actors in general have become very spoiled in the roles they choose these days. When I first started in this profession - about a hundred years ago in the last century - it was all about taking risks, it was about doing the job and honing the craft.

Brian Cox

#92. The value of taking risks through all stages of life is constant ... it's the excuses that change.

Rik Leaf

#93. Cinema was always taking the big risks, and TV was ambling along behind, just trying to touch the hem.

Nick Willing

#94. I realize that life is risks. It's acknowledging the past but looking forward. It's taking a chance that we will
make mistakes but believing that we all deserve to be forgiven.

Carrie Ryan

#95. You've got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it's not in movie stardom.

Gary Sinise

#96. If everything you do works, then you're not taking many risks and probably aren't innovating either.

Paul Buchheit

#97. Life is not so simple as you think without taking those risks, trying everything to make ends meet.

Auliq Ice

#98. Don't listen to the malicious comments of those friends who, never taking any risks themselves, can only see other people's failures.

Paulo Coelho

#99. Also risks of taking statins. To be sure, seeing a person in front of you has a greater impact than hearing about side effects secondhand. But even secondhand stories affect the way people think. We have also observed in

Jerome Groopman

#100. Living means taking chances. Risks. Playing safe all the time is being dead inside, even if you happen to still be breathing.

Ellen Hopkins