Richard Branson Quotes

The risk for me would be in not taking one - that's the only thing that's really risky for me.

It may seem like a big risk to follow your dream, but isn't the greatest risk of all to miss your life?

The ultimate risk is not taking a risk.

The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.

I'm a risk manager, but I'm also a risk taker.

By definition, risk-takers often fail. So do morons. In practice it's difficult to sort them out.

The emotionally sound person should be able to take risks, to ask himself what he really would like to do in life, and then to try to do this, even though he has to risk defeat or failure. He should be adventurous (though not necessarily foolhardy); be willing to try almost anything once, just to see how he likes it; and look forward to some breaks in his usual life routines.

The best results I have had in my life; the most enjoyable times, have all come from asking the simple question: 'What is the worst that could happen?'

The opposite of security is insecurity, and the only way to overcome insecurity is to take risks.

The biggest risk of all is not taking one.

The risk is not in doing something that feels risky. The risk is in not doing something that feels risky.

It is necessary to run risks, to follow certain paths and to abandon others. No one can make a choice without feeling fear.

I think it's important to live with a certain danger and a certain risk.

What is courage? Courage is the willingness to risk failure...There is only one danger I find in life, and that, indeed, is a real one. You may take too many precautions.

Doing what you're afraid of, getting out of your comfort zone, taking risks like that- that's what life is.

If you make your decisions based on comfort, before long you will be uncomfortable.

Success is... knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others.

The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin the greater the adventure), a margin whose width and length may be determined by unknown factors but whose navigation is determined by the measure of the adventurer's nerve and wits. It is exhilarating to live by one's nerves or toward the summit of one's wits.

It's important to take risks.

Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless. Have you found the intersection of your passion and the potential for world-shaping positive impact?

If we never take a risk, we'll never know the parts of ourselves that would have emerged if we had.

The difference between a calculated risk and rolling the dice can be expressed in one word: homework.

I think risk is important. I don't care if it's a great financial risk or a physical risk. You only get out of something what you put into it and the fact that you are willing to risk something means that you are going to get a lot more out of it.

I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

I've had to make really big decisions, knowing the results were not always in my control. Through these moments, I've learned to be daring and take risks but understand that everything always happens for a reason.