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- Taking action is the only way to get results.
- Risks can result in a victory or a failure.
- Risks present a possibility of a greater reward.
- ”Sometimes a great risk reaps a great reward.” -Bill Gates
- Ambition and Confidence allow you to take risks.
The reason you will miss 100% of the shots you don’t take is because the moment you decide not to take action you have already failed. Everyone has to take risks, and when that happens you can either be successful or fail. The reason people take risks is because they are looking at the rewards not the potential failure it could turn out to be. Someone who doesn’t take risks or shots in this case is bound by the shackles of failure because failure is the only choice outcome of someone who does nothing. Action leads to a Reward or a Failure but Inaction will always lead to Failure. We have all been in situations where we have been presented with a risk. To risk is to put something on the line for something greater. There are risks that end in failure but there are also risks that could possibly present a reward. We all take risks because we see the possibility that it could present not the failure. No one would take risks if the end result would always be failure. Risk takers are history makers after all. Bill Gates is a prime example to us all. After two years at Harvard, a young Bill Gates took a risk that would end up giving way to the rest of his successful career: He dropped out of college to found Microsoft. Today, Harvard’s most successful dropout makes a point of urging students to stay in school (“getting a degree is a much surer path to success,” he’s said), but the idea behind his decision to drop out is still the same: Sometimes, a great risk reaps great reward. When Bill Gates took this risk he did not see what would happen if he failed but rather what could happen if he succeeded. That is why ambition and confidence are two things you need to take risks. In conclusion, you miss all the chances you don’t take so take more risks not for the failures but for the future victories.