Don't take anyone else's definition of success as your own. (This is easier said than done.)
The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.
If the risk-reward ratio is right, you can make big money buying trouble.
What isn't tried won't work.
All great reforms require one to dare a lot to win a little.
If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much.
He that would have fruit must climb the tree.
To get profit without risk, experience without danger and reward without work is as impossible as it is to live without being born.
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
No one reaches a high position without daring.
Cadillacs are down at the end of the bat.
It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks.
You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.
Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.
You can't catch trout with dry breeches.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.
Many people have the ambition to succeed; they may even have a special aptitude for their job. And yet they do not move ahead. Why? Perhaps they think that since they can master the job, there is no need to master themselves.
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
