I take risks because I get bored. And I get bored very easily.

An idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don’t want to meet them.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn’t willing to.

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness… and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

Writing bores me so.

I don’t make people bend over backwards, and I don’t like that in people. I am definitely no diva.

You don’t know what you can get away with until you try.

You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes because that’s where the fruit is.

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

I don’t want to wake up and be bored. That’s probably my greatest fear is to have nothing to do. What better job is there than to play quarterback for an NFL team, and certainly one that I’ve been on for a long time and had success with? I don’t plan on giving it up any time soon.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

Doing stand-up is like running across a frozen pond with the ice breaking behind you. I love it because it’s dangerous.

Somebody’s boring me. I think it’s me.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

I don’t like to be bored.

Money and investing can be complex, confusing, and often boring subjects.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

I don’t see myself as a philosopher. That’s awfully boring.

The ads all call me fearless, but that’s just publicity. Anyone who thinks I’m not scared out of my mind whenever I do one of my stunts is crazier than I am.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

I’ve got nothing to say most of the time.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

I am 100 per cent Virgo, stubborn, over-organised, slightly abstracted from the rest of the world.

I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

I’d be so bored if I wasn’t going out there, knowing that I could still do it. So, I’m going to work hard to be ready to go, and I still plan on playing for a long time.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

A financial institution has the task of taking risks, and if it’s a well run institution – say, Goldman Sachs – it tries to cover the potential losses to itself, but only to itself.

I’m quite a chauvinistic person.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

Ever since the beginning of rock and roll, there’s been an Axl Rose. And it’s just boring. It’s totally boring to me.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.

I’ve got a great sense of humor.

Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It’s hard to keep awake with nothing to do.

A subject for a great poet would be God’s boredom after the seventh day of creation.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

The secret of being a bore… is to tell everything.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.

I’m mischievous, but I’m calculated.

I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

My genetic make-up is one of physicality. I’m a visceral guy.

If it’s all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it’s all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your heart going pitty-pat, pitty-pat. But when you finish, that’s it. You’re not going to think about it much afterward, apart from the odd nightmare. You’re not going to read that book again.

Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn’t any good reason to refer to it.

It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age. And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested.

Political courage is not political suicide.

I nearly failed when Virgin was in its infancy; I nearly failed in the early 1980s, and, of course, I have nearly died more than once trying to achieve a world record for boating or ballooning. But through a combination of luck and planning, both Virgin and I are still here.

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

Boredom is… a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.