Quotes About Risk

Once you duct-tape a Ziploc bag to a man's chest, there's no going back.

A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg , and his whole body to irresistible destruction.

Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's vision of the future

Our condition as men is risky and ticklish enough. One can not be sure of himself and his fortune an hour, but he may be whisked off into some pitiable or ridiculous plight.

If your plane is being hijacked by an armed man who, though prepared to take risks, presumably wants to go on living, there is room for bargaining.

I was a stunt man for 35 years.

One way in which fools succeed where wise men fail is that through ignorance of the danger they sometimes go coolly about a hazardous business.

A man can get killed in there.

There comes a time in every man's life when he's consumed by the desire to spit on his palms, hoist the black flag and start cutting throats.

Nothing can shock a brave man but dullness.

The brave man braves nothing, nor knows he of his bravery.

There is no thrill of mortal danger to surpass that of a lone man trying to create something that never existed before.

I call myself a blind man riding on a blind tiger.

No man can be a conservative unless he has something to lose.

It's always great to play a man who sets himself up to be punctured.

It would require a singularly stupid man to go hang around in narrow tunnels and cramped spaces alongside a threat like that. "And I, Harry Dresden, am that man," I stated.

Marrying any man is risky. Marrying a famous man is kissing catastrophe.

Man has become our greatest hazard, and our only hope.

We haven't got a plan so nothing can go wrong!

The most difficult part of dating as a single parent is deciding how much risk your own child's heart is worth.

I'm always thinking about losing money as opposed to making money. Don't focus on making money, focus on protecting what you have

The Stock Market is designed to transfer money from the Active to the Patient.

There is only one way to make a great deal of money; and that is in a business of your own.

You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it.