Richard Branson Quotes

Playing things too safe is the most popular way to fail.

In order to get to the fruit of the tree, you have to go out on a limb.

It's way easier to stay in the comfort zone, especially when things are going good than to go out on a limb and take some risks. My philosophy is exactly the opposite: Sometimes it's risky not to take a risk.

Without risk, there can be no growth.

The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.

The best stuff happens when you take a chance. When you risk something and do the thing that the other people are taking a chance on, on a network kind of level, they will be rewarded. You know, risk-reward.

The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.

The ultimate risk is not taking a risk.

If you want to be successful, you have to jump, there's no way around it. When you jump, I can assure you that your parachute will not open right away. But if you do not jump, your parachute will never open. If you're safe, you'll never soar!

No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary.

It's the old adage, 'Nothing ventured, nothing gained, ... While this is unique, we consider ourselves unique.

With everything I do, there always seems to be a massive risk involved.

Seek opportunity, not security. A boat in the harbor is safe, but in time its bottom will rot out.

If you scared to take chances, you'll never have the answers...

You had to take risks, follow some paths and abandon others.

The biggest risk in life is not risking.

If everything you do works, then you're not taking many risks and probably aren't innovating either.

The only safe thing is to take a chance. Play safe and you are dead. Taking risks is the essence of good work, and the difference between safe and bold can only be defined by yourself since no one else knows for what you are hoping when you embark on anything.

The idea of an entrepreneur is really thinking out of the box and taking risks and stepping up to major challenges.

If you never take a risk, you will never know what changes you need to make.

If you try to measure the future, you will never risk the present. Playing it safe. A ghastly game.

If your life is ever going to get better, you'll have to take risks. There is simply no way you can grow without taking chances.

I'm a firm believer in taking risks in life, because you'll never get anywhere unless you do, and the more risk involved the greater the outcome - or the worse, but you never know so you've got to go for it.

Risks are a measure of people. People who won't take them are trying to preserve what they have. People who do take them often end up having more.

Even those who venture to dip a toe in the pond of risk never allow themselves to get used to the water.