He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the induction of a new order of things.

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.

The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its own storms, it has its tides, and in its depths, it has its pearls too.

Anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, now that's the real test.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me.

Don’t make yourself miserable with what is to come or not to come.

A scepter snatched with an unruly hand must be as boisterously maintained as gained; and he that stands upon a slippery place makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up.

I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true.

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

If things seem under control, you are just not going fast enough.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.