Risk Quotes

The trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
Erica Jong

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I’m not afraid of falling into my inkpot.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.
J P Getty

Progress always involves risks.  You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first.
Frederick B. Wilcox

Let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.
Theodore Roosevelt

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.
Helmuth von Moltke

You miss 100% of the shots you never take.
Wayne Gretzky

Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone.  Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.
Tim McMahon

Our lives improve only when we take chances and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Walter Anderson

To win you have to risk loss.
Jean-Claude Killy

The average man’s judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.
Edgar Watson Howe

Take risks:  if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise.
Author Unknown

To be alive at all involves some risk.
Harold McMillan

In America any boy may become President and I suppose it’s just one of the risks he takes.
Adlai Stevenson

I don’t think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
Lillian Carter

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.
Helmuth von Moltke

To get rich never risk your health.
Richard Baker

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
Herodotus

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
George Patton

What you risk reveals what you value.
Jeanette Winterson

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T S Eliot

The reality is that I need to be challenged and interested, as long as the risk and reward is in line.
Sam Zell

I have a million dollars in the stock market, because if I lose a million dollars, I don’t personally care.
Suze Orman

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Pierre Corneille

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
Louis. D. Brandeis

Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.
Warren Buffett

One must pick and choose one’s battles in life or risk living in many emotional foxholes.
Donald S. Neviaser

Our lives improve only when we take chances – and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Walter Anderson

I learned to embrace risk, as long as it was well thought out and, in a worst-case scenario, I’d still land on my feet.
Eli Broad

Today, basically, on Wall Street, the big money is made by taking risks.
Bernard Madoff

The only person who never makes mistakes is the person who never does anything.
Denis Waitley

The value of having everybody get the complete picture and trusting each person with it far outweighs the risk involved.
Bill Gates

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.
George E. Woodberry

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
Mark Twain

To make money, you will have to take risks, even if it’s just your time on the line.
Stuart Wilde

The key to risk-taking is knowledge.
Stuart Wilde

Life is “trying things to see if they work.”
Ray Bradbury

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
Ernest Millar