We can’t be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode.

I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, ‘OK, I’m looking back on my life. I want to minimise the number of regrets I have.’ And I knew that when I was 80, I was not going to regret having tried this. I was not going to regret trying to participate in...

The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past — no matter how good it was.

They’d come for you, and this time they’d come with weapons.I was afraid of that. For you. But not of you.Never afraid of you.

But if you’re gonna dine with them cannibalsSooner or later, darling, you’re gonna get eaten . . .

He’s a conundrum- and there’s still a piece missing from the puzzle.” Whatever that piece was, there was a part of me telling me not to get involved- that it was too much to handle. That you shouldn’t go out on a limb unless you’re absolutely sure the limb can support your weight.

You would be derailing your life voluntarily out of fear that it might become ruined by chance. Or you could pick up and move on. Those were the only choices.

Take a chance and risk it all or play it safe and suffer defeat.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

Ah, Walker—if I could explain all of humanity’s foibles, I’d be a rich man indeed, at least as far as money goes. I believe people are like that because of fear. They fear being loved because they fear that if they’re loved, they’ll have to love back. And if they love back, they may get...

The software industry once had the keys to the kingdom. But buyers are becoming more sophisticated. The software industry should share in the risk instead of running and gunning.

I want to see an end to sovereign risk questions over Australia.

It’s the closest I’ve ever felt to dying.

Overconfidence blurs out the risk. Inferiority magnifies it.

Strong leaders are not the ones who do everything right. They are the ones to put a plan together, take risks, make mistakes, humbly admit their mistakes, take responsibility for failures, make necessary changes, do not fear correction, and with the trust of their followers and the team of which they were leading! -Clarity:Focusing on...

The risk is that China does not slow its steel production as much as we expect and if that is the case, the deficit will be higher.

When given age-appropriate challenges, children tend to take them very seriously; in fact, the more obvious the risk is, the more cautiously a child will proceed.

How do I get past my fears? Make a life for myself? Risk loving someone? When death is all that waits for you, what’s the point in trying to have a life?

The only safe thing is to take a chance.

One cannot bring up boys to be eagles and then expect them to be sparrows.

Business is all about risk taking and managing uncertainties and turbulence.

Love is not something you protect. It’s something you risk.

There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.

But we think the risk of a similar market hiccup late this year or early next remains significant,

I don’t have any feeling of accomplishment about anything unless there’s a lot of risk to it.

Traders are worried that if this situation deteriorates, supply from Nigeria would be at risk.

The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown..

Prior to September 11, we thought the world beyond our shores was one world of risk and the world in our continent was another world of risk.

I have not always chosen the safest path. I’ve made my mistakes, plenty of them. I sometimes jump too soon and fail to appreciate the consequences. But I’ve learned something important along the way: I’ve learned to heed the call of my heart. I’ve learned that the safest path is not always the best path...

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.

Our novice runs the risk of failure without additional traits: a strong inclination toward originality, a taste for research, and a desire to experience the incomparable gratification associated with the act of discovery itself.

If you’re going to love someone or something then don’t be a slow leaking faucet—-be a hurricane.

You have to be aware. Like, I’m not going to do any downhill skiing. It looks like a whole lot of fun, but I’m not going to risk breaking a leg. I want to be dancing the way I’m dancing now for 30 more years.

All choices are fraught with peril, but inaction is the most perilous of all.

Risky is not the same as crazy. Failing is not the same as being worthless.

Kupata kitu ambacho hujawahi kupata lazima ufanye kitu ambacho hujawahi kufanya.

To me, impulsive means foolish. But if a person’s not a little impulsive, they don’t have a pulse.

To be able to lock in those kinds of returns without risk is attractive to investors at a time when bond investments are lucky to be break even.

There is undeniably a growing risk that house prices could move markedly higher over the coming months. Indeed, this risk is clearly showing more prominently on the Bank of England’s radar.

By dint of railing at idiots you run the risk of becoming idiotic yourself

People play small for lots of reasons, but at the core of them all is fear. Playing small means playing safe—avoiding risk, failure, criticism, and the list goes on. But just imagine how incredibly different the world would be if everyone committed to playing big—taking on audacious goals, trying to make a meaningful difference, being...

For God’s sake, Gwen,” he said gently. “What matter that I love you. That’s not the bit that’s always been missing.”Her lips parted. They wished to ask a question she could not bear to bring herself to ask. He was never less than honest. The answer, than, was bound to be wrong.”So she did not...

In the current cycle, there would seem to be a risk of a particularly large decline in the market, given that, by many conventional metrics, we experienced a speculative bubble of extraordinary proportions.

As someone who craves the fetal position, I empathize with this sentiment. I’m just so glad I took the risk so early on in life.

The greatest risk to man is not that he aims too high and misses, but that he aims too low and hits.

While we believe the transition to Intel remains a risk, so far the impact has been negligible. We believe Mac momentum will likely carry into the December quarter.

The fallacy in the progressive critique is the egalitarian dogma that no one should get more than what liberals deem is a ‘fair’ reward, nor should there be any risk to anyone to fail.

Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today.

Capitalism has become systemically risky when a single financial algorithm like the one that David X. Li created brought the entire global economic system close to collapse in 2008.

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.