Elon Musk Quotes

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

Who never wins can rarely lose, Who never climbs as rarely falls.

You're unwilling to go out on a limb because it just might break underneath you.

Playing it safe is the riskiest choice we can ever make.

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

Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose.

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

I'm not really much of a risk taker.

If you're afraid to take risks in anything in life, it's just boredom.

If at first you do succeed don't take any more chances.

Do not be one of those who, rather than risk failure, never attempts anything.

The most dangerous thing you can do in life is play it safe.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

I'm not a betting man.

It might be scary because you're taking a risk, but at the end of the day you can say you tried.

I know what my comfort zones are. But without a back-up, I will never step out of my comfort zone. I don't go bungee jumping; I won't jump from the third floor without a safety net. I don't do such things. That's not my personality type.

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

If you want to avoid all risks, soon you will have no risks to worry about.

We are so in fear of failure that often we prefer not to try..

I'm not a risktaker. I'm the total opposite.

Life's too short to be super conservative but it's also too short to make it any shorter. I don't plan on dying early, but at the same time I don't plan on playing it so safe that I'll live to ninety.

People say they want to be in risky environments and do all kinds of exciting stuff. But they don't actually know what risk means: that risk actually does bring failure and mistakes.

I've often met people who are terrified, you know, in a straight jacket of their own making because they'd rather do anything that fail. They don't want to try for fear of failing.

Some of us are timid. We think we have something to lose so we don't try for that next hill.

Failure is not having the courage to try, nothing more and nothing less.