Quotes About Risk

Scissors, screwdrivers and the like pose an unacceptable risk to flight crews as well passengers.

A credible and effective response to climate change - which protects future generations from an unacceptable level of risk - needs the involvement of all countries.

With Gaga - she's not afraid to take chances. You get these dynamic projects because of it. She's completely unafraid.

Living in Cuba made me unafraid of whatever could happen to me.

The most daunting challenges of our times, from climate change to the ageing population, demand an entrepreneurial state unafraid to take a gamble.

I have a tendency to hire people who tend to be unattractive to the studios. Maybe this is a bad idea.

A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.

I'm afraid sometimes certain individual cases of defaults are unavoidable. What we should do is to step up monitoring, properly handle relevant matters, and ensure there is no regional and systemic financial risk.

Preventing liquidation of an unbalanced market will leave you in tears.

At the risk of sounding pedestrian, I'll be completely honest: the first thing I do in the morning is check Google News, partially because it seems sort of random and unbiased and partially because I tend to stay in hotels that don't necessarily have the fastest Internet connections.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Any American who has spent time in Iraq or Afghanistan will tell you: the closer you get, the less certain you are of anything. If you are in Iraq, if you are in Afghanistan, everything is ambiguous. Everything is murky and gray and uncertain and possibly lethal.

The future is inherently uncertain.

Just because a company's future is highly uncertain doesn't mean an investment in it is risky. In fact, some of the best potential investments are highly uncertain but have little risk of permanent capital loss.

The global economic outlook remains fragile and uncertain. Global economic imbalances persist and we must address them or risk future instability.

The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.

The outlook for the economy, as always, is highly uncertain.

There are so many people who are trying their luck in films and only a few of those actors get to do films and choose to be an actor. The stakes are always high here. It's hard in the sense that it's very uncertain.

Bailouts may have been more tolerable in the early 1990s when they were rare and their use for a failing bank was uncertain. That is no longer the case.

The Climate Risk Managers can be trained in the science and art of managing uncertain rainfall patterns leading to drought or flood.

Global war has become Frankenstein's monster, threatening to destroy both sides.

No other human activity is so continuously or universally bound up with chance. And through the element of chance, guesswork and luck come to play a great part in war.

War zones are dangerous, protests can be violent, also, natural disasters are difficult to cover, so there are going to be risks.

Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.