When something does not insist on being noticed when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presence or an event we take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratit...
No one reaches a high position without daring.
No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.
There are some risks we choose to take because the benefits from taking them exceed the possible costs. Optimal behavior takes risks that are worthwhile. This is the central paradigm of finance: we mu...
The pilgrims on the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock. To my knowledge, they didn't wait around for a return trip to Europe. You settle some place with a purpose. If you don't want to do that, stay ho...
There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
Everything is sweetened by risk.
It is not manly to turn one's back on fortune.
Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work force. And who gets the benefits? The benefits are only for the corporations, for the money makers.
Sometimes I think we can tell how important it is to risk by how dangerous it is to do so.
Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature.
Of course people are afraid. But honestly facing that fear seeing it for what it is is the only way of putting it to rest.
To be alive at all involves some risk.
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
Risk! Risk anything! ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
Every day of our life has risk. So never fear to take one.
I looked up at him, rain blending into my tears, ''Michael listen! You told me once that when you thought of life, you thought of this big ship in the middle of the sea and all the dangers and risks a...
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
I just do whatever it is that I believe I should do, regardless of the risks to my life.
Living with fear stops us taking risks, and if you don't go out on the branch, you're never going to get the best fruit.