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Basically if you study entrepreneurs, there is a misnomer: People think that entrepreneurs take risk, and they get rewarded because they take risk. In reality entrepreneurs do everything they can to minimize risk. They are not interested in taking risk. They want free lunches and they go after free lunches.

— Mohnish Pabrai

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

— Ciputra

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

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

— Mohnish Pabrai

Entrepreneurs are like visionaries. One of the ways they run forward is by viewing the thing they're doing as something that's going to be the whole world.

— Reid Hoffman

Entrepreneurs see the thing they want or need, then try to figure out a process of how to get it. People who shouldn't be entrepreneurs see the standard process they need to go through to get the thing they want or need then decide if they want to go through that process.

— Simon Sinek

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

— Yossi Vardi

Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business.

— Michael Gerber

✗Opposing Perspectives

Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.

— Victor Kiam

An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes.

— Victor Kiam

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

— Jason Fried