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«To be alive at all involves some risk.»
«Today the man who is the real risk-taker is anonymous and nonheroic. He is the one trying to make institutions work.»
«Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.»
«The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.»
«The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavour is taking the first step, making the first decision.»
«The fact is that one side thinks that the profits to be won outweigh the risks to be incurred, and the other side would rather avoid danger than accept an immediate loss.»
Author: Thucydides
| About:
Facts,
Risk-taking
| Keywords:
immediate, incurred, incurring, incurs, outweigh, outweighing, outweighs, profits, profit and loss
«Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.»
Author: General George S. Patton
(General)
| About:
Risk-taking
| Keywords:
calculated, calculating, rash, risks
«Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she won't suffer the way people do when they have a dream to follow. But when the person looks back-she will hear her heart»
Author: Paulo Coelho
| About:
Pity,
Risk,
Risk-taking
| Keywords:
disappointed, disillusion, disillusioned, pitiful, risks
«We took risks. We knew we took them. Things have come out against us. We have no cause for complaint.»
«Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Action,
Foresight,
Risk-taking
| Keywords:
clear-thinking, constitute, counsel, emergency, features, foresight, gong, gongs, jarring, jars, preservation, self preservation, strikes, The Emergency, unwillingness
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