Quotes About Risk

Until the tide goes out you don't know who's swimming naked. —WARREN BUFFETT

Many of us are afraid of risk and prefer the bland, the predictable, and the repetitive. This explains the overwhelming sense of boredom that is a defining characteristic of our age.

To be happy is to take the risk of losing that happiness.

The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.

You must have crossed the river before you may tell the crocodile it has bad breath.

Fall in love a little and if you are feeling very brave… fall in love a whole [f@%'ing] lot.

This is well to be weighed, that boldness is ever blind, for it seeth not dangers and inconveniences; therefore it is ill in counsel, good in execution...

If the light in your life has changed to yellow, I recommend you floor it. It's safer than the alternative.

Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.

Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third.

Borrowing is the mother of trouble.

How strange to use "You only live once" as an excuse to throw it away.

[T]he person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person that hadn't, and said a person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

Fear is one part prudence.

To lead is difficult when you're a follower of fear.

Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together.

Don't let your dreams go up in smoke — practice fire safety.

Where love begins, there dread thy first desire; A spark neglected makes a mighty fire.

If you play with fire, you're gonna get burned.

When a man becomes a fireman his greatest act of bravery has been accomplished. What he does after that is all in the line of work.

Firefighters — your worst nightmare is just another day at the office for them.

If you put out the fire, you won't have to jump out the window!

So as you look at the firefighter with his rake, hose or axe, His beet red face or ice covered mustache, You should know why he goes through that smoky front door, And is forced to crawl like a baby down on the floor. He does it to save both lives and property, All that is precious to you and to me. So take a good look at this modern warrior who serves his call proud and true, And know that he would die just to save me and you.

You might be a firefighter if "climbing the corporate ladder" has nothing to do with career advancement.