“Imagination must be drawn upon, risks must be assumed. "Nothing venture, nothing have" is perhaps truer of the department store than of any other enterprise.”
The Romance of Commerce (1918), A Representative Business of the Twentieth Century
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America born English businessman 1858–1947Related quotes
Living, Loving, and Learning (1982)
Variant: Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
Source: Living Loving and Learning
Context: To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
“In order to know men, something must be chanced. Who risks himself of nothing knows nothing.”
On meurt toujours trop tôt - ou trop tard. Et cependant la vie est là, terminée : le trait est tiré, il faut faire la somme. Tu n'es rien d'autre que ta vie.
Inès, Act 1, sc. 5
No Exit (1944)
“3678. Nothing venture, nothing have.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Source: Present Status of the Philosophy of Law and of Rights (1926), Ch. VII, Natural Right, § 30, p. 68.
“Talent is perhaps nothing other than successfully sublimated rage.”