Taking Risks for Success Quotes

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?'

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

A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.

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.

What's on the edge? What's next? That's where I think I do my best work - if I push my whole team to the edge.

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

We've become a country that is often risk averse. That's not the way to succeed.

When I took on 'Fargo,' I thought, 'Well, this is just a terrible idea. Four people will watch it, and they'll hate-watch.' But that allowed me to just go for it and take the risks.

The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.

You can't play to not lose.

Since my professional debut, I've always had a risky game.

Ask yourself when you learn the most. I guarantee it's when you felt at risk.

The litmus test for whether I want to take on a role or not is usually fear. If I'm afraid of it, then I want to do it.

In order to do any thing in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on the bank thinking of the cold and the danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.

Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else?

You can not achieve success without the risk of failure. If you are not afraid to fail, than you have a chance, but you are never going to get there unless you risk it.

There was originally no plan in place for me to become WWE champion. It felt like I became the No. 1 contender out of nowhere. I call what I did forcing the results. I wasn't happy with my position. I was putting in the work, but I wasn't getting the results. I was going to force the result no matter what the cost.

There's always risk. But I'm going to come in and play hard. I want to come in and contribute.

I never think: 'If I crash, I'm going to hurt myself.' I might think: 'If I crash, I'm not going to win.' Everything's about that finish line.

We need to risk, we need to dare to risk and fail greatly because that's the only way we grow.

Yeah, I guess generally I don't want things ever to be easy. While there's some danger of doing something that loses your personal stamp on things, I'd rather take the chance of doing that and do something slightly uncomfortable or hard for myself.

It might be a huge hit, it might not; but you learn something doing it.