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There is always the risk of being over-confident when you are preparing to face a weaker player.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

I try not to dwell on big mistakes but to move on when I make a mistake. I make mistakes most of the times and that's part of the risk profile being an entrepreneur. I guess one big mistake I did was not to start my own company earlier. I spent nine years working for others before starting Kazaa in 2000.

You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.

I have no complaints about losing money I put in high-risk investments. I did some of that when I had real money; my informed choice, my measured gamble.

I don't care who you love. If you love this country enough to risk your life for it, you shouldn't have to hide who you are.

Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.

As a child, the family that I had and the love I had from my two parents allowed me to go ahead and be more aggressive, to search and to take risks knowing that, if I failed, I could always come home to a family of love and support.

Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.

To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.

What you risk reveals what you value.

Medicine, which I wouldn't be without, has also been a force for... less good. For example, if you look at our mishandling of the immune system, using antibiotics in children and avoiding infection, we've certainly increased the risk of asthma.

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.

I think risk-taking is a great adventure. And life should be full of adventures.

It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

Now, one thing I tell everyone is learn about real estate. Repeat after me: real estate provides the highest returns, the greatest values and the least risk.

Likewise today, some Christians are content to merely exist until they die. They don't want to risk anything, to believe God, to grow or mature. They refuse to believe his Word, and have become hardened in their unbelief. Now they're living just to die.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

Only the really young are fearless, have the optimism, the romanticism to take unimaginable risks.