“There is no progress without risk, and in an environment where change is accelerating, risks are multiplying and businesses are increasingly complex, companies need strong, innovative partners to help manage their risk. Our brand clearly sets XL apart as the strong, innovative partner needed in today's market.” NeedsHelpingTodayStrongCompanyEnvironmentProgressRiskNeededComplexesPartnersManageBrandsInnovativeMultiplying Author:Mike McGavick
“Americans have always pursued our dreams within a free market that has been the engine of our progress. It's a market that has created a prosperity that is the envy of the world, and rewarded the innovators and risk-takers who have made America a beacon of science, and technology, and discovery. But the American economy has worked in large part because we have guided the market's invisible hand with a higher principle - that America prospers when all Americans can prosper. That is why we have put in place rules of the road to make competition fair, and open, and honest.” WorldHas BeensMadeDreamHandsAmericaPrinciplesTechnologyEconomyProgressRiskHonestHigherDiscoveryFairsCompetitionProsperityEnvyInvisibleEnginesOur DreamsFree MarketPursuedInnovatorsScience And TechnologyBeaconsAmerican EconomyInvisible Hand Author:Barack Obama
“To dream magnificently is not a gift given to all men, and even for those who possess it, it runs a strong risk of being progressively diminished by the ever-growing dissipation of modern life and by the restlessness engendered by material progress. The ability to dream is a divine and mysterious ability; because it is through dreams that man communicates with the shadowy world which surrounds him. But this power needs solitude to develop freely; the more one concentrates, the more one is likely to dream fully, deeply.” MenWorldNeedsDreamRunningStrongGivenAbilityGrowingProgressRiskModernDivineMaterialsSolitudeCommunicateMysteriousSurroundModern LifeRestlessnessDissipation Author:Charles Baudelaire
“No matter what you do next, the world needs your energy, your passion, your impatience for progress. Don't shrink from risk. And tune out those critics and cynics. History rarely yields to one person, but think, and never forget, what happens when it does. That can be you. That should be you. That must be you.” ThinkingWorldNeedsShouldPersonsDoeMatterHappensPassionNextEnergyForgetProgressRiskNo Matter WhatCriticsTunesYieldNever ForgetBe YouShrinksImpatience Author:Tim Cook
“Each of us must work to become a hardheaded realist, or else we risk wasting our time and energy on pursuing impossible dreams. Yet constant naysayers pursue no less impossible dreams. Their fear and cynicism move nothing forward. They kill progress. How many cynics built empires, great cities, or powerful corporations?” DreamMovingEnergyPowerfulCitiesProgressImpossibleRiskBuiltConstantPursueCorporationsOur TimeEmpiresCynicismRealistTime And EnergyGreat CitiesNaysayersImpossible Dream Book:It Worked for Me (Enhanced Edition): In Life and Leadership Source: It Worked for Me (Enhanced Edition): In Life and Leadership
“Had today's technophobic zealots [environmental activists] been in charge in previous centuries, we would have to roll human progress back to the Middle Ages - and beyond, since even fire, the wheel and organic farming pose risks, and none would have passed the "absolute safety" test the zealots demand. Putting them in charge now would mean an end to progress, and perpetual deprivation for inhabitants of developing nations.” HumansMeanEndsAgeTodayNationsFireProgressRiskMiddleCenturyDemandTestsAbsolutesSafetyEnvironmentalDevelopingWheelsActivistPerpetualFarmingMiddle AgesDeprivationHuman ProgressZealotOrganic Farming Author:Paul Driessen
“Progress of any kind is always at variance with the old and established ideas and therefore with the codes inspired by them. Every step of progress is a change involving heavy risks.” KindIdeasStepsProgressRiskInspiredHeavyCodeInvolvingEvery StepVariance Book:Bureaucracy: The Economist Source: Bureaucracy: The Economist
“The fact that's why the prisons and stock in private prisons rose the very day after the election results [for Donald Trump] were announced. The fact that progress that was made for people of color, for women, for LGBTQ people, are all at risk.” PeopleMadeFactsResultsProgressRiskColorTrumpElectionPrisonRoseElection ResultsPrivate Prisons Author:Ava DuVernay
“I think that the risk to all the progress we've made was at stake in the election because not just the president-elect but a lot of members of Congress, including now the Speaker of the House and the Senate majority leader, have said that their principal agenda was to undo a lot of this progress. But as I've been talking about over the last several days when it comes to health care, the gains that we've made are there. Twenty million people have health insurance that didn't have it before. The uninsured rate is the lowest it's ever been.” PeopleThinkingMadeSaidCareLastsHousePresidentTalkingLeaderMillionsProgressRiskMembersGainsTwentiesElectionMajorityRateIncludingCongressHealth CareAgendasStakesSenateSpeakersPrincipalLowestMajority Leader Author:Barack Obama