Quotes about risk from interviews: founders, athletes and artists on when to take a risk and what they risked themselves.
Comfort is very sneaky. It feels good, but to get the best out of yourself, you have to put yourself in positions where you're uncomfortable
The Nobel laureate's summary book on how two systems of thought—fast and intuitive versus slow and deliberate—shape human judgment, and why neither can be trusted blindly.
A portrait of racing driver Ayrton Senna assembled entirely from archival footage, with not a single new on-camera interview — a rare case of a documentary that plays like a finished drama.
I'm not afraid to fail, I'm afraid not to try something great
A series of interviews with major traders that adds up to an unexpected conclusion: market success rests not on a secret formula but on the discipline of controlling losses and on each trader's ability to work out an…
A film about a French wire-walker who spent years plotting an illegal crossing between the Twin Towers for a few minutes aloft — shot like a heist thriller in which the prize was not money but beauty.
I spent millions because I believed in every frame and every scene
A practical methodology treating the launch of a new venture not as the execution of a finished plan but as a series of testable hypotheses about what people actually want.
A film documenting climber Alex Honnold's ropeless ascent of the three-thousand-foot face of El Capitan — one in which the camera crew fears for its subject's life as much as the audience does.
Cinema should be honest, even if it's painful and uncomfortable
About why well-run market leaders, making genuinely sound decisions, repeatedly lose to weak, cheap newcomers — and why the cause of their downfall turns out to be precisely their attentiveness to today's best customers.
Acting is like a high wire act - you're always in danger of falling.
An attempt to explain why some peoples conquered others rather than the reverse — not through racial superiority but through accidents of geography: which plants, animals and diseases a continent happened to have.
In jazz, everything happens in real time. You have a fraction of a second to feel, hear, understand, and respond. This is intuition at its highest level.
A collection of essays by a programmer and investor arguing that good programming has more in common with a painter's craft than with engineering from a blueprint, and that understanding this changes both how products…
I've always believed that if you want to be taken seriously, you need to take risks.
A candid account of running a company on the edge of collapse, written by someone who lived through it, offering no glossy success formulas but a clear-eyed look at making decisions when there is no correct answer.
If you don't take risks, you don't create anything real. Failure is part of the process.
About systems and people that don't merely withstand the blows of chance but grow stronger from them, and about why robustness and antifragility are fundamentally different qualities that get confused all the time.
If you're not willing to make mistakes, you'll never create anything new.
A trader-turned-philosopher's manifesto arguing that the fate of companies, markets and civilizations is set not by average trends but by rare events nobody could picture in advance — and about the habit of declaring…
I've always believed that architecture should be bold and express the energy of its time.
Sometimes you must destroy the old to create the new. It's the natural cycle of art.
If you are not willing to take risks, you cannot create something truly new. Safety is the enemy of art.
If you never fail, you're not trying hard enough. It's better to be bold and wrong than timid and right.
You can't explore new territory without accepting failure. Space exploration is risky, but the opportunity is enormous.
If something is important enough, you should try — even if the probable outcome is failure.
You can't predict the future, but you can prepare. Diversification and flexibility are your best tools.
I think we're in a race against time with respect to the threat of automation.
Virgin breaks every rule. We say: here's how it's done—let's do it differently and better.
The only thing that's gonna make you happy is to grind it out.
The best investments are made when others are afraid. Fear creates opportunity.
To show the personal is to be vulnerable, but that's the point of art
Art must be honest, even if it hurts
Exposing yourself is the foundation of art
I do what others are afraid to do
Every project is an adventure into the unknown
You cannot avoid risks. You can only choose which risks you want to take and be prepared for them.
A system that is too stable cannot evolve. You need some level of stress and uncertainty for a system to adapt and grow.
Much of my life has been spent proving that we cannot predict the future. But we can prepare for it.
Should you be fragile, robust, or antifragile in life? Antifragility means that disorder, stress, and volatility strengthen you rather than break you.
A black swan is an event that lies beyond the realm of normal expectations. Nobody anticipated it. But when it happens, people always say they knew it all along.
Success is not avoiding mistakes. Success is learning from mistakes quickly and moving forward.
You need to let a rush of enthusiasm sweep you when creating something new, even if it's madness.
For an entrepreneur, it's crucial to accept uncertainty and move forward within it.
In sports and business, success is not one bet but a sequence of decisions.
If you're not willing to take risks, you won't innovate. That's the definition of being conservative.
To be great, you must sacrifice. Period.
I wasn't afraid to lose because I knew each defeat was a step toward victory. Women must have the right to take risks and make mistakes.
Greatness requires sacrifice and absolute commitment.