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  • 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.

  • I had discovered long ago the first lesson of political courage: to think anew. I had then learned the second: to be prepared to lead and to decide. I was now studying the third: how to take the calculated risk. I was going to alienate some people, like it or not. The moment you decide, you divide.

    Tony Blair (2010). “A Journey”, p.28, Random House
  • Take calculated risks.

  • Do one thing every day that scares you.

  • Some people like to live without too much risk. They're satisfied leading a safe existence. This attitude of caution infiltrates into their goals. Every successful athlete - or businessperson - enjoys taking calculated risks. You have to. Especially in the gym when you're squatting 500 for reps and you can't get one more but grunt out ten. Your nose starts bleeding, you fall into the rack and that's set one.

    Workout   Attitude   Fall  
  • Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

    T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.1250, Faber & Faber
  • We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

  • The thing I preach constantly is do your research; build your knowledge base. Don't just go into business on a whim or a prayer - and don't think 'I'm an entrepreneur so I have to take risks'. Entrepreneurs don't take risks. They take calculated risks; only the good ones.

    Source: katerussell.co.uk
  • Take calculated risks. Act boldly and thoughtfully. Be an agile company.

  • Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk — and to act.

    "Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life".
  • Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

  • Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.

    Lying   Loss   Decision  
    "5 Steps To Analyze Risk In Your Business" by Jason Olsen, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 14, 2016.
  • I do not choose to be a common man…it is my right to be uncommon—if I can…I seek opportunity—not security…I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed… to refuse to barter incentive for a dole… I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of utopias….

    Dream   Opportunity   Men  
    "Who's Who in America". Book by Dean Alfange, vol. 1, p. 42, 1984 - 85.
  • To put money into anything, anywhere, provided that the downside is measurable and acceptable and the chances of a good profit appear to be better than 50%. I will not take gambles, but it is part of my job description to be ready to take very carefully calculated risks.

    Jobs   Risk   Chance  
  • The fact is that really no comedian sets out to offend you. Some comics enjoy the challenge of taking a subject that is likely to be found offensive and trying to make it funny‚ but the object is still to make you laugh. Offense is only a calculated risk. It's highly unlikely that a comedian whose only goal was to repulse you would ever make it past an open-mic stage, far less build a long career of touring theatres and television appearances.

    Past   Careers   Long  
  • Intuition, if you are fashion designer is really the key to everything. I just really have a feeling it's the right moment in time to create a new business model. Obviously I have facts and figures that could back that up. It isn't a gamble; it's a calculated risk.

    Fashion   Keys   Feelings  
    Source: www.cnn.com
  • Research is a way of taking calculated risks to bring about incalculable consequences.

    Risk   Research   Way  
    The Decline and Fall of Science Aphorisms (p. 1)
  • I do not choose to be a common man. It is my right to be uncommon - if I can. I seek opportunity - not security. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the state look after me. I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed... It is my heritage...to think and act for myself, enjoy the benefit of my creations, and to face the world boldly and say, this I have done.

    Dream   Men   Thinking  
    Who's who in America: 43rd Edition, 1984-1985, Volume 1, (p. 42), 1984.
  • As an adventurer...I try to protect against the downside. I make sure I have covered as many eventualities as I can. In the end, you have to take calculated risks; otherwise you're going to sit in mothballs all day and do nothing.

    Health   Inspire   Risk  
  • I think there's a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk.

  • You have to take the calculated risk,to earn something

  • The difference between a calculated risk and rolling the dice can be expressed in one word: homework.

    Georgette Mosbacher (1994). “Feminine Force: Release the Power Within You to Create the Life You Deserve”, Touchstone
  • You have to take calculated risks in life.

    Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
  • There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - even calculated risk - and irresponsibility and capitulation.

    Brave   Risk   Lines  
  • For me... it was always about the challenge of making this voyage... It was always a calculated risk, but life is a risk.

  • The Universe rewards calculated risk and passion

    Passion   Risk   Rewards  
  • I think most astronauts are not risk takers. We take calculated risks for something that we think is worthwhile.

    "NASA Astronaut Discusses Gravity and the Dangers of Spacewalking". Interview with Alejandro Rojas, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 3, 2013.
  • We are ready to compromise. We are ready to take calculated risks, but for a peace that will give us security.

  • Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.

    Taken   Order   Risk  
    Warren E. Burger (1984). “Significant Supreme Court Opinions of the Honorable Warren E. Burger: Chief Justice of the United States”
  • Calculated risks are part of what you do, but the idea that something completely crazy will work just because it's completely crazy is completely crazy.

    Crazy   Ideas   Nfl  
    Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh (2009). “The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership”, p.239, Penguin
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