Boldness in itself is genius.
Load the ship and set out. No one knows for certain whether the vessel will sink or reach the harbor. Cautious people say, 'I'll do nothing until I can be sure.' Merchants know better. If you do nothing, you lose. Don't be one of those merchants who wont risk the ocean.
I used to say, "Go boldly in among the English," and then I used to go boldly in myself.
I can live with losing, I can't live without taking my chance.
You can go back 500 years. You cannot find a more audacious plan.
Ignorance and arrogance are the artist's and entrepreneur's indispensable allies. She must be clueless enough to have no idea how difficult her enterprise is going to be and cocky enough to believe she can pull it off anyway."
If you want to do something extraordinary, there's always risk involved. I was always willing to take that risk.
Adventure is a sign of incompetence.
Americans admire success. Englishmen admire heroic failure
Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves t'have his sails filled with a lusty wind, Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack, And his ship run on her side so low That she drinks water, and her keel plows air.
