Joseph Schumpeter Quotes

Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.

The pioneers get all the arrows.

So much of starting a business or affecting change is the confidence and courage to simply try.

The first quality that is needed is audacity.

Those who have accomplished great things in the world have been, as a rule, bold, aggressive, and self-confident. They dared to step out from the crowd and act in an original way. They were not afraid to be generals.

Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness, and France is saved.

I was never a wallflower - I put my head on the style chopping block.

With Gaga - she's not afraid to take chances. You get these dynamic projects because of it. She's completely unafraid.

I think the character of a man is to establish something where no one else has ever done before.

You can say a lot of things about me, but you can never say I don't take risks.

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

In my personal life, I have always been bold, from the clothes I wear to how I talk. For me, boldness does not necessarily mean stripping. I think people have wrong notion about boldness. For me, bold is being different.

Well, I think that - I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.

I'm becoming more adventurous.

Audacity is central to everything I do. A lot of times I think my work is about just seeing if I can get away with it.

It's not that we fly by the seat of our pants. We're not afraid of failure.

I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.

I'm the one who will take chances, not worry about the backlash.

In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.

Take our own company as an example: We're living proof, we jump with our own parachutes.

I don't shy away from any questions. I'm not scared of any question. I'll give you an answer. A lot of people are scared of having actual opinions out there. People are so scared of criticism... I'm not scared of people disliking me.

It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.

I want to show up to work and take risks. I don't ever want to play it safe.

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

I've always been a risk taker; I've never believed in following the expected path.