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Frankly, I guess, I don't really understand why people, why so many people, are so risk averse. You know, there's always ways to wiggle your way out of any situation if you're motivated enough.

I do like the thrill of risk-taking, but it's always carefully calculated. I have done many high risk undertakings, but I have always measured the stakes. Not feeding the fear nor the doubt. But I also believe that you need to fuel passion in whatever you do. This is what I am trying to teach my children today.

I guess I'm motivated by the fear of failure to some degree and knowing what can happen when you don't do things the way you need to do them to have success.

I try not to do anything I don't like, so I stay motivated pretty easily.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

The moment somebody says 'this is very risky' is the moment it becomes attractive to me.

I don't think people do anything out of fear very well. So I think the only choice is to have them intrinsically motivated.

I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.

I find when somebody says to me, 'I'm going to motivate you,' more often than not, they're not going to get me.

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.