Top 100 Taking Risk Sayings
#1. Life is all about toiling and labor. But obviously I get great joy in confronting challenge and taking risk.
Sufjan Stevens
#2. You don't get rewarded for taking risk; you get rewarded for buying cheap assets. And if the assets you bought got pushed up in price simply because they were risky, then you are not going to be rewarded for taking a risk; you are going to be punished for it.
Jeremy Grantham
#3. In today's rapidly changing world, the people who are not taking risk are the risk takers.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#5. Life is all about taking risk to get what you want.
Adam Lambert
#6. But despite the fact that life is full of risk, yet without taking risk, we stand a greater risk.
Sunday Adelaja
#7. Business and growing jobs is about taking risk, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always striving. It is about dreams. Usually, it doesn't work out exactly as you might have imagined. Steve Jobs was fired at Apple. He came back and changed the world.
Mitt Romney
#8. If you push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking risk, really amazing things can happen.
Marissa Mayer
#9. After taking risk into account, do more managers than you'd see by chance outperform with persistence? Virtually every economist who studied this question answers with a resounding 'no.'
Eugene Fama
#10. You can't have bank holding companies acting as hedge funds. You can't have them taking a million-dollar pension plan for Joe Schmo the bus driver and treat it with the same risk appetite that you treat George Soros' pocket money. It's fundamentally ridiculous.
Shia Labeouf
#11. If you want risk taking, set an example yourself and reward and praise those that do.
Jack Welch
#12. 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
#13. Without death, there is hardly any threat strong enough to truly appreciate human life. He thinks: I am as good as dead
too afraid to live, only waiting, never taking a risk
I am as good as dead already.
Joe Meno
#14. 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
#15. You are to make your own way prosperous ... Even God cannot do it for you; you will have to do it yourself by doing the right things; taking right decisions, talking right, thinking right, being at the right place with the right-kind of people and by reading the right materials.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#16. This is our big chance to see what people think of us. The real us. We have to show em there's nothing to be afraid of. If we don't get over our fears, they never will.
Lisi Harrison
#17. Successful business people became successful because they took risks. The biggest risk is that once successful, they stop taking risks.
G.R. Gopinath
#18. I have always felt better taking a risk than an easier route for what I believe in.
Ernst Haas
#19. Twenty Million New Customers Are Worth Taking a Risk For
Howard Schultz
#20. When we take ourselves too seriously, we are at the risk of taking other things, including God, too lightly,
James Martin
#21. We're in the business not so much of being contrarians deliberately, but rather we like to take perceived risk instead of actual risk. And what I mean by that is that you get paid for taking a risk that people think is risky, you particularly don't get paid for taking actual risk.
Wilbur Ross
#23. Taking away the risk from the financial sector and taking it on to the public shoulders is not the right approach.
Jeroen Dijsselbloem
#24. I praise CBS for taking a risk, which is always the price you pay for opportunity. This is not standard movie of the week storytelling. I think movies of the week have fallen into a niche and that isn't my niche.
Tom Selleck
#25. One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.
Isabelle Adjani
#26. You can't gather much if you won't go on risk expedition. Leaders never fear the thorns; they'll still go in for the beautiful roses no matter the number of pricks they'll get.
Israelmore Ayivor
#27. I always think it's silly when people talk about works of culture taking risks. Because there's not any risk involved.
Daniel Handler
#28. First, imagine taking the potentially regret - producing path of inaction. Then imagine what the very best outcome would be were you to take this risk. By picturing both scenarios in advance, you can avoid the regret of what might have been.
Wayne Dyer
#29. I don't want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me ... Just too much risk.
Jason Calacanis
#30. It's the adventure, the adrenaline-flowing, risk-taking in outdoor activities that attracts me.
Baba Kalyani
#31. If people are always comfortable with you, you're probably not telling them the whole truth.
Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
#32. Publishers are very risk-averse, so they lean towards licenses and sequels. But the fact is that even those are not guaranteed hits. So, if 'playing it safe' does not guarantee hits, they might as well leave it up to the really creative, risk-taking people, because they couldn't do any worse.
Tim Schafer
#33. The only one taking a risk here is me, if I get too attached to you.
It's not risky for you, as long as you're not confused either."
"I'm not."
"Of course you aren't." A small smile played on Balthazar's lips.
Claudia Gray
#34. When you compete, you gain more than you lose, even when you lose.
Aaron Lauritsen
#35. Nico drank from the chalice, then offered it to Jason. "You asked me about trust, and taking a risk? Well, here you go, son of Jupiter. How much do you trust me?"
Frank wasn't sure what Nico was talking about, but Jason didn't hesitate. He took the cup and drank.
Rick Riordan
#36. Risk reduction for BRCA2 carriers includes taking tamoxifen. Removing ovaries prior to age 40 drops breast cancer risk in half. Ovarian cancer surveillance is unfortunately inadequate at early detection, but birth control pills reduce ovarian cancer incidence up to 60%.
Kristi Funk
#37. 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
#39. Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.
Jim McMahon
#41. Patient sees [lithium] medication as a promise of a cure, and a means of suicide if it doesn't work. She fears that by taking it she will risk her last resort
Kay Redfield Jamison
#42. Risk taking and the drive to pursue innovative ideas are the fuel that stokes the entrepreneurial spirit.
Daniel Goleman
#43. When I go to the bathrooms, I cannot take off my pants as before; because there is a light continuously blinking like a camera, everyone says it is just an environmental friendly lighting. Well, I cannot really trust it and I am not taking the risk of circulating my naked photos around.
M.F. Moonzajer
#44. It's tempting to believe that a break from life's routine will only cause chaos. But regimen does not ensure security. The only constant we can count on is change.
Gina Greenlee
#45. The most critical risk of all, is not taking the risk if means be dangerous.
Anthony Liccione
#46. Risks may make you win, or they will make you learn. Either of the benefits is worth daring for.
Israelmore Ayivor
#47. Not taking risks one doesn't understand is often the best form of risk management.
Raghuram G. Rajan
#48. I chose to tell a personal story. When you tell a movie like this that's as emotionally charged as this is, it's a risk. As one of my great cinematic heroes, Francis Coppola, would say, "If you aren't taking the highest, greatest risk, then why are you a filmmaker?"
Christian Bale
#49. If you think of global public goods like polio eradication, the kind of risk-taking new approach, philanthropy really does have a role to play there, because government doesn't do R&D about new things naturally as much as it probably should, and so philanthropy's there.
Bill Gates
#50. But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.
Anne Tyler
#52. To love is to risk the pain of loss. But it's a risk that's worth taking.
Deirdre Martin
#53. Individuals who continually play it safe in life, taking the path of least resistance and risk, deny themselves rich opportunities for personal growth.
Some
Adele Von Rust McCormick
#54. individual risk taking, especially in the domain of risks to life and health.
Richard H. Thaler
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. To be alive is the biggest fear humans have. Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are. Just being ourselves is the biggest fear of humans.
Miguel Ruiz
#60. JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE TOO SCARED TO TAKE ANY RISKS DOESN'T MEAN THE REST OF US SHOULD BE.
Cammie McGovern
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. Taking a risk is always frightening, but I gave myself a set period of time and had enough money to see me through. I operated from the belief that things would be okay, that if I wasn't successful I would find myself a job, but either way, I would be fine.
Jane Green
#65. Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression.
Criss Jami
#66. Corporations have been killing the risk-taking and exploration that makes software great. They have tried to rip the soul out of development.
Brian Behlendorf
#67. Loving someone is taking a constant risk with your emotions. When you find the right person,the one you know you want to be with, that person becomes worth the risk.
Monica Murphy
#68. The greatest risk is not taking any.
Tim Fargo
#69. To live, to TRULY live, we must be willing to RISK. To be nothing in order to find everything. To leap before we look.
Mandy Hale
#70. I suppose if you take enough slim chances, you are bound to create success out of one if you stick with it long enough. Either way, imagine what you might be able to learn in the process - about the work, and yes, of yourself too.
Chris Hill
#71. love was a choice that I was capable of making just as much as it was a risk I was capable of taking.
Penny Reid
#72. Using the bathroom in a frat house is like hanging out the door of a speeding car. You're taking a risk.
Kandi Steiner
#73. Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is.
Mitt Romney
#75. Within legal enforcement of "morality," there is no sense of how to morally, ethically, or fairly help people live safer lives. It's all about banishment or punishment or forced destitution - all of which creates more desperation, and more social risk-taking by people in moments of crisis.
Terre Thaemlitz
#76. I like taking risks and I decided to put every bit of me into the role.
Sherilyn Fenn
#77. Taking a risk is something we do not for our mind but for how it makes us feels, emotions it brings, excitement it creates and I feel alive.
Luke Blaise Pereira
#78. The message, if you think about it this way, is all about taking chances because fate or destiny or God will protect you. Take a risk, have a little faith. It's all about life, not death.
Chris Bohjalian
#79. If you're not getting any bad reviews, you're not taking enough risks
Susan Egan
#80. Don't be afraid to tread new ground, but do a sanity test.
Sabeer Bhatia
#81. When you just wing it, you are aware of the risk and the uncertainty, and inclined to be more cautious. When you have a high-tech tool giving you an illusion of omniscience, I am concerned that it will lead to greater risk-taking. LYONS:
Neal Stephenson
#82. Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
Chloe Thurlow
#83. If it's still in your mind, it is worth taking the risk
Paulo Coelho
#84. All growth, including political growth, is the result of risk-taking.
Jude Wanniski
#85. The three primary risk factors for falling are poor balance, taking more than four prescription medications, and muscle weakness.
Atul Gawande
#86. 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
#88. I think dads let babies take more of a risk, maybe bounce off a bed more or jump off a couch or do more risk-taking things.
Al Roker
#89. In my opinion half the people who spend their lives avoiding being run over by buses had much better be run over and put safely out of the way. They're no good.
Agatha Christie
#90. You do not see it Serenity, but you are very special. That is why I want to protect you and why I come to you every night. I'm taking a tremendous risk being around you this way, but for some reason I cannot ascertain, I need to be here.
Melyssa Winchester
#91. Failure is inevitable. If you aren't taking risks, then you won't fail.
Cara Santana
#92. But if you're gonna dine with them cannibals
Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten ...
Nick Cave
#93. Success comes from delegating, risk-taking and having a good TEAM!
Richard Branson
#94. Practice makes comfort. Expand your experiences regularly
so every stretch won't feel like your first.
Gina Greenlee
#95. 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
#96. The people who are taking these loans because it's the only way they can afford their house are exposing themselves to a lot of risk. They're not saving money and they're not building equity, which means they could find themselves in a scenario where they owe more money than their house is worth.
Ric Edelman
#97. If you are able to say "no" when it is convenient and inconvenient, and you can control your flesh and die to yourself for the sake of the will of God, then you are really already a great person.
Sunday Adelaja
#98. Playing it safe and taking no risks is a shortcut to poverty
Jordan Belfort
#99. Living is a risk,' I snapped at him. 'Every decision, every interaction, every step, every time you get out of bed in the morning, you take a risk. To survive is to know you're taking that risk and to not get out of bed clutching illusions of safety.
Maria V. Snyder
#100. 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
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