Quotes About Risk

If I ever had to be on an amusement park ride, I probably wouldn't get on one; I'm not a very adventurous person!

I believe that trying to deal with Donald Trump is like trying to play three-card monte in Central Park: it's not going to work out.

I'd rather climb Everest than go for a walk in the park.

Some genetic variants can be informative about one's risk for Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.

I thank those activists such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, and others. They risked - and sometimes lost - their lives in the name of freedom and equality.

Knowledge doesn't really form part of human nature. Conflict, combat, the outcome of the combat, and, consequently, risk and chance are what gives rise to knowledge. Knowledge is not instinctive; it is counter instinctive, just as it is not natural but counter natural.

Controversies are part and parcel of making a big film.

Hits and flops are part and parcel of movie business.

He was living in an age much more dangerous, more painful, much more on the edge than our own particular age.

Something out of the ordinary is that I got bit by an alligator at one of my parties.

I believe this artificial intelligence is going to be our partner. If we misuse it, it will be a risk. If we use it right, it can be our partner.

The things that I've learned is, try to make all the mistakes with your own money and on a small level so that when you are responsible for a partner's money or assets, you've learned, and you don't make bigger mistakes.

At the end of the day, VCs have to provide their limited partners with great returns, or they aren't going to be able to raise another fund.

I always tell my partners that our job is to fund all the companies we can that can be worth $10 billion or more. That's such a difficult constraint, we can't have any other constraints.

We reviewed our process at Greylock and discovered that the best investments are non-obvious enough that they result in a mixed vote by our partnership.

I have to say that in this particular cow that we're dealing with, those parts of the cow were removed, and so we don't think there's any risk or very negligible risk to human health with this particular incident.

I like risky parts - abrasive characters the audience won't necessarily like.

The best roles have risks... and those are the parts I'm interested in.

I'm not someone who plays hard to get. This whole thing about 'Oh, let's exchange numbers' and then people wait four or five days before they call you? I don't see the point. If you feel something, why would you let that pass? You only live once.

When you call someone and ask them to do something they've never done before, in different mediums I think they would be inclined to pass because they're afraid of the risk. But the creative people who populate the theater world love the challenge of new things.

The decision to put American lives at risk is a decision that has a very high hurdle to pass.

I feel '14 didn't just shape me and my approach from then on: it changed the level of overtaking from other guys in the sport as well. Not many people were doing that, coming from a long way back and trying big passing moves.

I grew up around a lot of artists and people passing through. I learned so much from them. I felt the safest with them - and the most endangered.

Why, given their advanced mathematical ideas, did the Arabs not proceed to probability theory and risk management? The answer, I believe, has to do with their view of life. Who determines our future: the fates, the gods, or ourselves? The idea of risk management emerges only when people believe that they are to some degree free agents. Like the Greeks and the early Christians, the fatalistic Muslims were not yet ready to take the leap.