Strategic Risk Quotes

The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

A war with so little chance of success should not be fought.

Risk and failure is a part of our equation, and if you are seeing too little failure, you are actually probably not taking enough risks.

Russian control of Korea would be a dagger pointed at the heart of Japan,.

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.

I want the OSS to recruit young men of disciplined daring who are calculatingly reckless.

We should willingly take risks in supporting new projects. The tendency is to play it safe when funding is low, but we need to remember that the greatest risks have the greatest payoffs.

All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.

To beat opposing teams, you have to attack, and to attack, you have to take risks.

If you want to take the island, then burn your boats. With absolute commitment come the insights that create real victory.

We can't continue to always base our strategy on the fact that the other guy is going to mess up all the time.

At Nintendo, we do not run from risk. We run to it.

If you operate any kind of major diplomacy, you must run some risk.

If Roosevelt took this country into war and won, he might be one of the great figures of all time. But if we lost, he would be damned forever. The cards are now stacked against us.

Remember that you are more likely to die because you execute badly than get crushed by a competitor.

Generals who save troops for the next day are always beaten.

We should get back to the ... doctrine of brinkmanship, where everybody knows we have the power and will use it.

If you're too methodical, too fearful, you're not going to win. But the clever thing is to make the calculation correctly about where and when to go over the top. You've got to know when to push it and when to come back.

‎We need to become more unreasonable but in an intelligent way.

Take calculated risks. Act boldly and thoughtfully. Be an agile company.

The crises in North Korea, Iran, the Middle East, show how quickly things can change and how they can go wrong. We must be prepared. And right now the Army is not.

Taking big risks combined with having a team you believe in and that believes just as much in you as a leader make for long-term wins, even in a game of inches.

However much risk we are taking, we can and probably should take more.

Setbacks and losses are both inevitable and essential if you're going to improve and become a good, even great, competitor. The art is in avoiding catastrophic losses in the key battles.

Nintendo's way is to challenge conventional thinking. Not just for the sake of doing things differently, but to do things better.