400 inspirational quotes to enlighten your life

By Crossmap, blogs.crossmap.com Saturday, June 24, 2023

Inspirational quotes about taking risks and opportunities from entrepreneurs

The following quotes encapsulate the entrepreneurial spirit. They urge you to step outside of your comfort zone, embrace uncertainty, and seize opportunities that lead to extraordinary success.

"The only thing that stands between you and your dream is the will to try and the belief that it is actually possible." - Joel Brown

"The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that is changing rapidly, the only way to stay ahead is to embrace change." - Mark Zuckerberg
"If you're not failing every now and then, it means you're not innovating enough." - Jeff Bezos
"When you take risks and they work out, they lead to new capabilities you never saw before." – Tom Soderstrom
“Life doesn’t always present you with the perfect opportunity at the perfect time. Opportunities come when you least expect them, or when you’re not ready for them.” – Susan Wojcicki
“A lot of times people look at risk and ask, ‘What are the odds that I will succeed?’ A different way to look at risk is to ask, ‘What’s the worst thing that would happen if I failed?’” – Dave Hitz
"I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow. " – Marissa Mayer
“At the core of Silicon Valley is a passion for ‘yes.’” – Steven Levy
“I knew that if I failed, I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.” – Jeff Bezos
"In today’s industry, in which change happens at a relentless pace, standing still is not an option. You must take a risk at some point." – Sanjib Sahoo
"If ROI is that obvious and certain, the idea probably isn’t that risky (or transformational) in the first place." – Peter Buonora
“Make the choices that make you nervous. If you make the choice that’s the easy way out, that wasn’t the big vision or big choice to make.” – Eileen Burbidge
"You have to [take risks] if you’re going to innovate and revolutionize anything with an organization. In fact, your tolerance for risk is directly related to how successful you can be and that tolerance is worth challenging." – Ginna Raahauge
"If failing is an accepted part of doing business and the blame game is not embedded in the organization, risk is not perceived as a threat anymore. The emphasis is on learning from mistakes to not repeat them rather than being too timid to attempt something for fear of reprisals." – Guido Laures
"The whole reason for risk is to innovate faster, and you do need failure to do it, but you need to fail in a way that leads to new understanding." – Stuart Kippelman
“You shouldn’t focus on why you can’t do something, which is what most people do. You should focus on why perhaps you can, and be one of the exceptions.” – Steve Case
“Embrace what you don’t know, especially in the beginning, because what you don’t know can become your greatest asset.” – Sara Blakely
“If I stop to kick every barking dog I am not going to get where I’m going.” – Jackie Joyner-Kersee
“Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.”- Warren Buffett
“If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn
“It is within everyone’s grasp to be a CEO.” – Martha Stewart
“People don’t take opportunities because the timing is bad, the financial side unsecure. Too many people are overanalyzing. Sometimes you just have to go for it.” – Michelle Zatlyn
“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller
“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me?” – Ayn Rand
“It’s important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become memorable.” – Sara Blakely
“There can be no vulnerability without risk. There can be no community without vulnerability. There can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.” – M. Scott Peck
“You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.” – Sir Richard Branson
“Every time you state what you want or believe, you’re the first to hear it. It’s a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don’t put a ceiling on yourself.” – Oprah Winfrey
“Security is mostly a superstition. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” - Helen Keller
“Leap, and the net will appear.” - John Burroughs
“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.” - Peter Drucker
“It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.” - William James
“The biggest risk a person can take is to do nothing.” - Robert Kiyosaki
“It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.” - Seneca
“Why not go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.” - Jimmy Carter
“Are you placing enough interesting, freakish, long shot, weirdo bets?” - Tom Peters
“The only thing worse than starting something and failing is not starting something.” – Seth Godin
"Take the risk, be aggressive, push hard, and set your sights way, way, way farther out than you think you can get. Drive your team toward it every day.” – Bryson Koehler
“If you don’t get all the way to that goal line, you’ve at least gone further than you would have had you tried to de-risk the project up front." – Bryson Koehler
“It is not the manager’s job to prevent risks. It is the manager’s job to make it safe to take them.” –Ed Catmull