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Risk-taking

«Nothing risque, nothing gained.»
Author: Alexander Woollcott | About: Risk-taking | Keywords: risque
«Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.»
«Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.»
«Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.»
«Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.»
«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.»
Author: Peter F. Drucker (Educator, Writer) | About: Risk-taking | Keywords: risks
«One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum»
«No noble thing can be done without risks»
«It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.»
«It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.»

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