Quotes About Risk

You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.

If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

Nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous

I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.

I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.

one who makes no mistakes makes nothing

One who makes no mistakes makes nothing at all.

Man is born by labor, [40] and birth itself means risking death.

Love is in vain if Luck isn't there! / Vano è l'amorese non c'è fortuna!

I am not proposing any return to reality—to foundations, to the solidity of an ontology that has its feet on the ground—against the risks of rampant irrationalism, as it seems to me is happening today in certain returns to phenomenology, now combined with the attention of the cognitive sciences

The risk is, as ever, that the hyperbole of IPL will simply smother the cricket; perhaps the members of the IPL's cheer squad should stop listening to each other and start listening to themselves.

The winning investor's objective should be to have one or two big winners rather than dozens of very small profits" (How to Make Money in Stocks, 4th ed. [New York: McGraw-Hill, 2009], 274).

If you only want to make average market returns, then scale your positions to a very small size, and your portfolio will act very much like a market index.

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

merchants who financed this expedition viewed it as a reconnaissance mission rather than a trading venture and little cargo was loaded on board the ships. Instead, all available space was converted into living space for the large number of men on board, a necessary feature of long voyages into the unknown. Many would die on the outward trip and for those that survived there was a cornucopia of tropical diseases awaiting them on their arrival in the East

desk simply to say: "Would you be willing to be parachuted into Greece next week?"' Woodhouse thought about it for a moment. 'There seemed no reason to say No, so I said Yes.'5 He reasoned that it would be a good opportunity to practise his Greek.

Mais c'est toujours ainsi en temps de guerre : les chefs aiment à décréter, du fond de leur quartier général, l'ordre de se faire tuer sur place, alors même qu'il suffirait d'un léger déplacement latéral pour éviter l'obus.

If you could really insure banks and other lenders against default risk, that might well unleash a great wave of capital into the economy.

As with all derivatives, these tools were to offer a way of controlling risk, but they could also amplify it.

If defaults on mortgages were uncorrelated, then the BISTRO structure should be safe for mortgage risk, but if they were highly correlated, it might be catastrophically dangerous. Nobody could know. Duhon

people typically overemphasize risks that arrive from outside the group and underestimate the ones that are inside the group. Throughout history pandemics have been associated with xenophobia, even if people are complacent about domestic infection risks.

the workers were careful when handling oil drums marked as "full." However, workers happily smoked in rooms that stored drums marked "empty." The reason? The word "empty" in English is associated with "nothing"; it seems boring, dull, and easy to ignore. However, "empty" oil drums are actually full of flammable fumes.