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Quotes About Risks

Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into urban warfare.
~ Charles Krauthammer
As this body of knowledge has evolved, a much more critical job for researchers and scientists has evolved into explaining and educating policy makers and the public to the risks of global warming and the possible consequences of action or of no action.
~ John Olver
For years, critics of Fannie Mae have warned that it does not give them enough information to judge its risks.
~ Alex Berenson
I fought passionately to remain in the E.U., and I warned of the economic risks if we left the E.U.
~ George Osborne
For many years now, ExxonMobil has held the view that the risks of climate change are serious and do warrant action.
~ Rex Tillerson
As recently as the September 11 event, the majority of Muslims were, as the rest of the world was, against its violence. However, if despair and humiliation continue in the population of more than one billion Muslims, the world will face increasing risks of conflicts and wars.
~ Ahmed Zewail
Florence Nightingale was an amazing figure. She created the American Red Cross. She saw the suffering from bad health conditions on the battlefield and in the military hospitals, and she fought like crazy to change the conditions; to make sure that the doctors washed their hands and practiced sanitary measures. She put herself at great risks.
~ Sharon Lawrence
Autobiographies are always written as if the author had it all mapped out with perfect foresight, ignoring the risks and uncertainties at that time. This misleads, as much as those beautiful photographs of a past holiday abstract from the heat, the mosquitoes, and the lack of connectivity.
~ Raghuram G. Rajan
Autobiographies are always written as if the author had it all mapped out with perfect foresight, ignoring the risks and uncertainties at that time. This misleads, as much as those beautiful photographs of a past holiday abstract from the heat, the mosquitoes, and the lack of connectivity. Policy making invariably involves taking measured risks in the face of uncertainty, for one has neither a prior template nor the luxury of indecision.
~ Raghuram G. Rajan
Execution is what gives you an edge in detecting new realities in the external environment as well as risks that are being introduced, perhaps inadvertantly, to your own operations.
~ Ram Charan
The person who knows only success can be more oblivious to all the pitfalls.
~ Randy Pausch
The finding of AIDS in infants and children who are household contacts of patients with AIDS or persons with risks for AIDS has enormous implications with regard to ultimate transmissibility of this syndrome," Fauci says. "If routine close contact can spread the disease, AIDS takes on an entirely new dimension," he adds.
~ Randy Shilts
There are serious risks to living in paradise. Such are the ways in jamaica. It would be difficult for the media and its conspirators to come forth now and tell the truth about my trench town reggae creation, after having perpetrated lies on our history for so long. However, an attempt was made by the late- michael manley as prime minister to do so.
~ RAS CARDO REGGAE
Achievement must be made against the possibility of failure, against the risk of defeat. It is no achievement to walk a tightrope laid flat on the floor. Where there is no risk, there can be no pride in achievement and, consequently, no happiness. The only way we can advance is by going forward, individually and collectively, in the spirit of the pioneer. We must take the risks involved in our free enterprise system. This is the only way in the world to economic freedom. There is no other way.
~ Ray Kroc
inventar se parece mucho a hacer surfing: tienes que anticiparte y coger la ola justo en el momento adecuado).
~ Ray Kurzweil
Well, the Brazilian butt lifts are dangerous.
~ Paul Nassif
Having cancer empowered me to take more risks. I knew beating cancer was going to shape me, but it wasn't going to be all of me.
~ Hoda Kotb
Be open to opportunity and take risks. In fact, take the worst, the messiest, the most challenging assignment you can find, and then take control.
~ Angela Braly
Every day as Chancellor I see alerts telling me of risks around the world.
~ George Osborne
I've seen many actors go awry by making the wrong choices early on.
~ Rose McGowan
Mark Ruffalo, aka the Incredible Hulk, is the natural gas industry's worst nightmare: a serious, committed activist who is determined to use his star power as a superhero in the hottest movie of the moment to draw attention the environmental and public health risks of fracking.
~ Jeff Goodell
Among other objectives, liquidity guidelines must take into account the risks that inadequate liquidity planning by major financial firms pose for the broader financial system, and they must ensure that these firms do not become excessively reliant on liquidity support from the central bank.
~ Ben Bernanke
All I know is that witnesses with vital evidence in the case are bad insurance risks.4 —New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, when asked about all the deaths of witnesses who had been sought for testimony.
~ Richard Belzer
Neuroscience research tells us that the adolescent brain is primed for the acquisition of new skills. Teens are driven to seek out new experiences, more intense social and emotional relationships, and, for better or worse, new risks.
~ Richard Guare