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

I’ve got a great sense of humor.

I’ve lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.

I am a tough guy.

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.

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

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

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

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

I’m mischievous, but I’m calculated.

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

I’m someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

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

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

You never know with these things when you’re trying something new what can happen. This is all experimental.

It’s no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.

I like to do things quickly because I’m easily bored.

I didn’t want to play it boring and safe. I also didn’t want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they’re even scarier than first ones.

Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.

Writing bores me so.

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.

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

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Well, I think that there’s a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you’re likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

I have been a youngster and I know speeches are boring.

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

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

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.

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

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

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

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?

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

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

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

Political courage is not political suicide.

I got a dog with a Napoleon complex. I have a Napoleon complex. We’re small. Anything big that we feel is threatening us, we want to fight. We’re not a pushover.

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.

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

If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.

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 tend to get bored quickly, which means I must be boring.

I’m extremely compassionate, loving, all of those warm fuzzy things, but the outer shell doesn’t project that all the time.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

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

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?

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.

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.

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

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

I like a man who grins when he fights.

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

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

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.