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Quotes About Risk

First of all, never play macho man with the market. Second, never overtrade.
~ Paul Tudor Jones
Most men I know, pissed away their fortunes. I'm the only one I know, that made a fortune pissin'
~ Frank Costello
Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
~ P. T. Barnum
Most men who have really lived have had, in some share, their great adventure. This railway is mine.
~ James J. Hill
It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness.
~ Herman Melville
There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything. Do not be afraid to make mistakes providing you do not make the same one twice.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
The fool who traveled is better off than the wise man who stayed home.
~ Rashi
To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go.
~ Joshua Slocum
With the best equipment in the world the man with poor judgment is in mortal danger.
~ Royal Robbins
It is better to fail with your own vision than to fail with another man's vision.
~ Johan Cruijff
Women don't take enough risks. Men are just 'foot on the gas pedal.' We're not going to close the achievement gap until we close the ambition gap.
~ Sheryl Sandberg
Any man who is a bear on the future of this country will go broke.
~ J. P. Morgan
Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils.
~ Warren G. Harding
Charging a man with murder in this place was like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500.
~ John Milius
Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.
~ Daniel Drew
The key to No-Limit... is to put a man to a decision for all his chips.
~ Doyle Brunson
After about 30 minutes I puked all over my airplane. I said to my self, "Man, you made a big mistake."
~ Chuck Yeager
When the men in Russia foul up, they are dismisses, sometimes losing their necks. But we protect those who fail and press them to the government bosom.
~ Hyman Rickover
Be as bold as the first man or [woman] to eat an oyster.
~ Shirley Chisholm
There never was a great man yet who spent all his life inland.
~ Herman Melville
Man, wear your seat belts. That's all I can tell everybody. You never know.
~ Tom Brady
The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is idle to deny.
~ Robert Dale Owen
The better a man is the more mistakes will he make – for the more new things he will try.
~ Peter Drucker