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“The fact is that one side thinks that the profits to be won outweigh the risks to be incurred, and the other side would rather avoid danger than accept an immediate loss.”
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“If you're not making mistakes, you're not taking risks, and that means you're not going anywhere. The key is to make mistakes faster than the competition, so you have more changes to learn and win.”
John W. Holt, Jr. quotes
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“Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.”
Jim McMahon quotes (American Football Player. b.1959)
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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.”
Andre Malraux quotes (French Historian, Novelist and Statesman, 1901-1976)
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“To be alive at all involves some risk.”
Harold Macmillan quotes (British politician, 1894-1986)
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“The first step in the risk management process is to acknowledge the reality of risk. Denial is a common tactic that substitutes deliberate ignorance for thoughtful planning.”
Charles Tremper quotes
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“We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them”
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“It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that no one has heard before”

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“It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.”
Thucydides quotes (Ancient Greek historians and author, 460-404bc)
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“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
T.S. Eliot quotes (American born English Editor, Playwright, Poet and Critic, 1888-1965)
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“The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavour is taking the first step, making the first decision.”
Robyn Davidson quotes
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