Bob Parsons Quotes

I would be shocked by the lack of security if we were not at Amity headquarters. They often straddle the line between trust and stupidity.

We have problems with our physical security, operational security through to management.

If you want to live your life through to the end, you have to live dangerously.

I don't want to live life too cautiously. I mean, you can step off a curb and twist your ankle.

If I can't be daring in my work or the way I live my life, then I don't really see the point of being on this planet.

It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, for all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.

I have lived on a razors edge. So what if you fall off. I'd rather be doing something I wanted to do. I'd walk it again.

The great stories go to those who aren't afraid to live them

If you're living your life in fear, then you're just not living.

The next time you are contemplating a decision in which you are debating whether or not to go for the gusto, ask yourself this important question: "How long am I going to be dead?" With that perspective, you can now make a free, fearless choice to do just about any goddamned sneaky thing your devious little mind can think up. Go ahead. Have your fun. You're welcome. Go on. See you in hell.

I have done a lot of crazy things in my life, and I do not regret anything.

I've always been one to throw caution to the wind, and my motto has been, 'Never have a dull moment.' Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't, but I don't think I'd have it much differently.

The two great risks are risking too much but also risking too little. That's for each person to decide. For me, not risking anything is worse than death. By far.

I believe [ Rajiv Gandhi] had a real sense that he would be assassinated.

Not only do the brave get killed, but the brave have a better chance of it.

He who fears to venture as far as his heart urges and his reason permits, is a coward; he who ventures further than he intended to go, is a slave.

Security used to be an inconvenience sometimes, but now it's a necessity all the time.

The nature of a coward is to avoid death. If such a man courts peril there can be only two reasons. Either he is not a coward at all or there is no danger.

Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die.

If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged.

You gotta take chances in this life or you're already dead.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Security will produce danger.

Dreams should make you think, ‘If I had the guts to do it and I didn’t care what anybody thought, this I what I’d really do’.