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One misconception is that entrepreneurs love risk. Actually, we all want things to go as we expect. What you need is a blind optimism and a tolerance for uncertainty.

— Drew Houston

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I think that sometimes people are frightened to take the risk of entrepreneurship.

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Entrepreneurs are great at dealing with uncertainty and also very good at minimizing risk. That's the classic great entrepreneur.

— Mohnish Pabrai

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

— Yossi Vardi

Being an entrepreneur means the ability to think out of the box by putting away our fear of any risk, including financial.

— Ciputra

I'm generally risk averse, and most great entrepreneurs I know are as well.

— Jason Fried

Entrepreneurs love to view risk as binary. The more you put on the line, the greater the potential for reward.

— Jason Fried

Whatever the reasons, would-be entrepreneurs should be forewarned. Going into business for yourself isn't just risky because your business might fail. It's risky because you might have a harder time getting a job in the future, even if you succeed with your company.

— Scott Shane

All entrepreneurs make decisions. Some will go right, and some will not go that right.

— Sunil Mittal

Really great entrepreneurs have this very special mix of unstoppable optimism and scathing paranoia.

— Astro Teller

✗Opposing Perspectives

Entrepreneurs have only the murkiest picture of the future in which they are making their bets, and also there is ambiguity: they don't know when they push this lever or that lever that the outcome is going to be what they think it is going to be - there is the law of unanticipated consequences.

— Edmund Phelps