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In the media business and as a creative executive, if you don't take risks, you're dead in the water. Calculated risk taking is essential for success. No one said it was easy.
Nancy Dubuc
Success
You
Business
Creative
Risks
Water
Easy
Risk
Risk-Taking
Take
No-One
Taking
Calculated
Calculated Risk
Dead
Executive
Said
Essential
Media
I run skills-building programs focused on healthy risk taking, failure resilience, and self-care for undergraduates around the country.
Rachel Simmons
Failure
Country
Healthy
Programs
Focused
Run
Risk
Risk-Taking
Taking
Around
Resilience
People are still very focused on the startup story: Risk-taking founders, with a bold idea, some capital and a network supportive environment, go out and take the shot on goal. But the problem is, this is no longer the truth about what makes Silicon Valley so special.
Reid Hoffman
Truth
People
Problem
Startup
Valley
Focused
Out
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Some
About
Network
Risk-Taking
Take
Environment
Idea
Longer
Supportive
Makes
Still
Go
Goal
Very
Story
Capital
Shot
Special
Bold
Founders
From my standpoint, we ought to be talking about... how do you make Wisconsin a more attractive place for risk-taking, business investment, business expansion.
Ron Johnson
You
Business
Ought
About
More
Risk-Taking
Wisconsin
Investment
Attractive
Make
Talking
How
Expansion
Place
Standpoint
There's a certain type of person drawn to the gangster world, and they're generally young men who were predisposed to violence and risk-taking, who like to make a lot of money quickly and wear flashy clothes.
Terence Winter
World
Money
Men
Young
Clothes
Type
Drawn
Wear
Risk-Taking
Generally
Like
Make
Were
Lot
Quickly
Person
Flashy
Young Men
Certain
Who
Gangster
Violence
Publishers are very risk-averse, so they lean towards licenses and sequels. But the fact is that even those are not guaranteed hits. So, if 'playing it safe' does not guarantee hits, they might as well leave it up to the really creative, risk-taking people, because they couldn't do any worse.
Tim Schafer
Creative
People
Worse
Those
Risk-Taking
Fact
Towards
Lean
Safe
Well
Because
Does
Leave
Up
Very
Hits
Any
Might
Really
Sequels
Even
Publishers
Playing
Guarantee
Guaranteed
I moderated a panel focusing just on women and the specific challenges that women entrepreneurs face. And we found that around the world, the challenges are the same, whether it is gaining access to capital, risk-taking, or the ability to expand beyond a small business and grow.
Valerie Jarrett
Business
Challenges
Women
World
Face
Panel
Focusing
Ability
Small
Risk-Taking
Small Business
Entrepreneurs
Beyond
Around
Access
Expand
Same
Just
Whether
Gaining
Capital
Grow
Found
Specific
We have kind of turned our back on the fact that hard work, sacrifice, risk-taking, innovation, is what made America great.
Erik Prince
Work
Hard Work
Great
Innovation
Made
Sacrifice
Back
Our
Kind
Risk-Taking
Fact
America
Turned
Hard
I think that, on the whole, risk-taking entrepreneurial characters regard nature as a sort of background that we can use for our own advantage.
Roger Scruton
Nature
Own
Think
Our
I Think
Background
Characters
Risk-Taking
Entrepreneurial
Advantage
Sort
Regard
Use
Whole
Risk taking in business is one thing. Risk taking in your personal safety is a different thing.
Marc Randolph
Business
Safety
One Thing
Risk
Risk-Taking
Taking
Personal
Different
Your
Different Thing
Thing
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