Risk

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Christopher Columbus

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Winston Churchill

A burning light may go out, a sailing man may drown.

A burning light may go out, a sailing man may drown.

Norwegian proverbs

Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.

Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.

Malayan proverbs

Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say 'yes' to life?

Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say 'yes' to life?

Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.

Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.

Publilius Syrus

You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.

You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

Leonardo da Vinci

We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Miguel de Cervantes

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep it.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep it.

G.K. Chesterton

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

Albert Einstein

I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

Miguel de Cervantes

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

George S. Patton

If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.

If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.