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For the private sector to flourish, special privilege must give way to equal opportunity and equal risk for all. -- Paul Wolfowitz
Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity. -- Gary Ryan Blair
Be open to opportunity and take risks. In fact, take the worst, the messiest, the most challenging assignment you can find, and then take control. -- Angela Braly
Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is. -- Mitt Romney
If managed well, urbanization can create enormous opportunities: allowing innovation and new ideas to emerge, saving energy, land and natural resources, managing climate and the risk of disasters. -- Sri Mulyani Indrawati
In any business opportunity, you'd be looking, probably, primarily at the risk and return. Some business can be very risky with a low return; what you want is the lowest risk with the biggest return. -- John Caudwell
What I try to do as an actor is constantly find that, find ways to risk, find opportunities to fall on my face if it's going to be worth it, and then maybe I'll surprise myself. -- Jeremy Irons
Today, the growing economic and social pressures in our country are putting millions of women, children and families at increased risk of abuse and neglect, especially when families are denied basic support services and economic opportunity. -- Robert Casey
Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins. -- Charles Stanley
The promise of America has always been that if you worked hard, had the right values, took some risks, that there was an opportunity to build a better life for your family and for your next generation. -- Mitt Romney
Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity. -- Gary Ryan Blair
New Zealand needs to balance its environmental responsibilities with its economic opportunities, because the risk is that if you don't do that - and you want to lead the world - then you might end up getting unintended consequences. -- John Key
I praise CBS for taking a risk, which is always the price you pay for opportunity. This is not standard movie of the week storytelling. I think movies of the week have fallen into a niche and that isn't my niche. -- Tom Selleck
Many young Muslims see no opportunities for themselves and do not feel they have control over their lives or a stake in their nation's future. Such pessimism leads to disengagement. We risk losing a generation of young Muslims to apathy and extremism. -- Najib Razak
For generations, America has served as a beacon of hope and freedom for those outside her borders, and as a land of limitless opportunity for those risking everything to seek a better life. Their talents and contributions have continued to enrich our country. -- Spencer Bachus
High school students ought to seek out campus communities where they feel not only empowered to engage their talents, but also challenged to leave their comfort zones. The ability to embrace new opportunities emerges, in part, from a willingness to take risks and to fail. -- Drew Gilpin Faust
I had always fancied a go at the comedy and when it started to go reasonably well and the opportunity arose for me to move into it full time, I just couldn't turn it down. I just took the risk, and I just wanted to see if it would work and thankfully it did. -- Jo Brand
Diversity is not a politically correct idea. Diversity in a boardroom or in a Parliament means that you just have different minds, different life experience, different ways of thinking about patients or customers or voters so that when you bring that intellect, you look at opportunity and risk, and then you have it in much better balance. -- Jenny Shipley
Ironically, the opportunity to go into space brings you back down to Earth big time! My decision must also take into account my children, my family and my friends. I must be at peace with this decision. And I was. I weighed the risks without letting fear feed on fear. There is no room for fear in my life. -- Guy Laliberte
Risk is the price you pay for opportunity. -- Tom Selleck
Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. -- Mitt Romney
what risk to a common man is an opportunity for a wise -- Ratan Jeet
You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together. -- Earl Nightingale
The majority of people are not willing to risk what they have built for the opportunity to have something better. -- Jay Samit
...one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death. -- Markus Zusak
The only real security is in having lots of opportunity. But risk is the price to pay for opportunity. And risk is scary. -- Robert G. Allen
Network marketing gives people the opportunity, with very low risk and very low financial commitment, to build their own income-generating asset and acquire great wealth. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Every time you take a risk or move out of your comfort zone, you have a great opportunity to learn more about yourself and your capacity. -- Jack Canfield

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