Venture
An undertaking of chance or danger; the risking of something upon an event which can not be foreseen with certainty; a hazard; a risk; a speculation.
An event that is not, or can not be, foreseen; an accident; chance; hap; contingency; luck.
The thing put to hazard; a stake; a risk; especially, something sent to sea in trade.
To hazard one's self; to have the courage or presumption to do, undertake, or say something; to dare.
To make a venture; to run a hazard or risk; to take the chances.
To expose to hazard; to risk; to hazard; as, to venture one's person in a balloon.
To put or send on a venture or chance; as, to venture a horse to the West Indies.
To confide in; to rely on; to trust.
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Venture Quotations
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
W. Clement Stone
Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.
Emily Dickinson
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
Virginia Woolf
Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
Virginia Woolf
The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
Plautus
I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
Edmund Burke
It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
As I've said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators - not recently - fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.
Bobby Knight
Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.
Reinhold Niebuhr
To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.
Emile M. Cioran
Venture Translations
venture in Danish is riskere
venture in Dutch is zich wagen aan, aandurven
venture in Finnish is vaarantaa
venture in French is risquer
venture in German is wagen, Risiko, herauswagen
venture in Latin is conor
venture in Portuguese is risco
venture in Spanish is ventura, especulacion
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