This is how civilizations decline. They quit taking risks. And when they quit taking risks, arteries harden. Every year, there are more referees and fewer doers. When you've had success for too long, you lose the desire to take risks.

Take risks, go out! Do not be afraid!" Fear is a dictatorial attitude that paralyzes you.

There's a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.

One can remain more sure-footed by taking small steps, but perhaps achieve greater speed by taking bigger steps. Of course, one also runs the risk of setting out in a completely erroneous direction. Surely the important thing isn't the length of our steps, but that the objective is clear.

Issues about violating people's privacy don't seem to be surmountable, I'm not willing to risk insulting anyone.

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