#risks

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. ↗

— Peter Drucker

#about #big #generally #make #mistakes

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#foundations #full #however #life #may

Finnish companies tend to be very traditional, not taking many risks. Silicon Valley is completely different: people here really live on the edge. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#completely #different #edge #finnish #here

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

— Paul Tillich

#fails #failure #forgiven #his #never

Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail. ↗

— Ed Koch

#afghanistan #also #being #buddha #clinton

In the end, we may be hurting the very people we should be concerned about - the inner-city poor, those who already have to live with many risks in their daily lives, those who do not have clout here in Washington. ↗

— Fred Thompson

#already #clout #concerned #daily #daily lives

It took the Gulf War to demonstrate that America did want more than one friend in the Mideast, and also was willing to take and make major risks to prevent a small Muslim country, Kuwait, from being overrun and in effect stolen by Iraq. ↗

— Caspar Weinberger

#america #being #country #demonstrate #did

Talking from morning to night about sex has helped my skiing, because I talk about movement, about looking good, about taking risks. ↗

— Ruth Westheimer

#because #good #helped #i #looking

You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done. ↗

— Chuck Yeager

#done #getting #great #job #necessary

The worst part of writing fiction is the fear of wasting your life behind a keyboard. The idea that, dying, you'll realize you only lived on paper. Your only adventures were make-believe, and while the world fought and kissed, you sat in some dark room masturbating and making money. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#death #existential-risks #fear #death