“The cost of assessing risk is now often greater than the cost of failing.”
― Joichi Ito
“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
― William Faulkner (1897-1962)
“A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
― William G.T. Shedd (1820-1894)
“Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.”
― Sarah Addison Allen
“Never was anything great achieved without danger.”
—Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)
“Failure is a bend in the road, not the end of the road. Learn from failure and keep moving forward.”
― Roy T. Bennett
“In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki
“A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.”
― Helen Keller (1880-1968)
“Fortune sides with him who dares.”
― Virgil (70-19BC)
“The greatest risk to man is not that he aims too high and misses, but that he aims too low and hits.”
― Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)
“The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.”
― Tacitus (56-120)
“...the more risks you allow children to take, the better they learn to take care of themselves. If you never let them take any risks, then I believe they become very prone to injury. Boys should be allowed to climb tall trees and walk along the tops of high walls and dive into the sea from high rocks... The same with girls. I like the type of child who takes risks. Better by far than the one who never does so.”
― Roald Dahl (1916-1990)
“It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.”
― Plutarch (46-120)
“The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.”
― Bob Iger
“We have to learn to live with uncertainty.”
― Gerd Gigerenzer
“RISK: If risks are known, good decisions require logic and statistical thinking. UNCERTAINTY: If some risks are unknown, good decisions also require intuition and smart rules of thumb.”
― Gerd Gigerenzer
“Always ask: What is the absolute risk increase?”
― Gerd Gigerenzer
“Because these calculations generate precise numbers for an uncertain risk, they produce an illusory certainty.”
― Gerd Gigerenzer
"I focus on the most important form of innumeracy in everyday life, statistical innumeracy--that is, the inability to reason about uncertainties and risk."
― Gerd Gigerenzer
"Cognition requires going beyond the information given, to make bets and therefore to risk errors."
― Gerd Gigerenzer
“Risk is just like shadow. It follows you wherever you go, so what.
Forget about it and focus on what you are doing. Remember, no
pain, no gain; no risk, no return"
— Michael Dell
"It is easy to be brave when far away from danger."
— Aesop
"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."
— Muhammad Ali (1942-2016)