risk

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

One has to abandon altogether the search for security, and reach out to the risk of living with both arms. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.

You can't think of risks. I have nothing to lose. You either make something that you like, or you don't, and you throw it to the universe.

Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions.

My father's real gift and value to U.S. Shoe is not in 'properly segmenting the market'; rather, he has created a beautiful corporate culture which rewards risk taking, which supports rather than punishes those who have a bad year or two, which allows ideas to percolate upward.

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act.

I'll risk forty dollars that he can outjump an frog in Calaveras county

I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being instructive.

It's better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.