Dean Kamen Quotes

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

If you want to do things – to change things – you must run the risk of not succeeding.

I don’t care about risk, honestly. The riskiest thing to do is not to act. I would far rather try and fail than fail not trying.

It seems like the more I live, the more I realize that saying 'yes' is almost never a mistake. If you say no, it might feel safe, but then you end up going nowhere.

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

There are so many opportunities that I could've gotten before if I had just took a little more of a risk.

I've discovered people in my lifetime who are like, 'I always wanted to sing but... ' It's like, 'Well then, did you try?' My thing was always not caring about failure.

The one thing I learned is to just give everything a shot. You don't want to live in regret.

The only regrets I have are things I didn't do.

Your greatest regret at the end of your life will be the lions you didn't chase. You will look back longingly on risks not taken, opportunities not seized, and dreams not pursued. Stop running away from what scares you most and start chasing the God-ordained opportunities that cross your path.

I don't care about failing because I do not want to sit down in my older years and say, 'How come I didn't try?'

When you remove the risk, you remove the challenge. When you remove the challenge, you wither on the vine.

If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

If you're afraid to live your life in a glass bubble, how can you do what we do in this industry?

I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.

Looking back on my life, I wish I'd stepped forward and made a fool of myself more often when I was younger - because when you do, you find out you can do it.

I'd rather regret doing something than not doing something.

I followed my heart and figured that if I tried and failed, at least I'd know that I tried.

I firmly believe that life is an 'and' proposition and not an 'or' one. If you really love something, you just have to try it. The worse that can happen is that you'll be told 'no.'

To be honest, I probably wouldn't have gone to Hollywood if I hadn't been offered 'Ugly Betty' because I was a wee bit feart. But you have to make yourself frightened. That's what keeps you alive.

The only things you regret are the things you don't do.

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.

To know that one has never really tried - that is the only death.

When you hold things back, when you don't commit completely to your ideas and trust completely in your own instincts, you are guaranteeing your own failure - even if you end up having commercial success.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.