Quotes About Risk

where power intersects with pleasure, there is danger. Adepts

It went well enough at first. One need not be able to name a danger to sense and avoid it.

They will blame me. That is the risk poets take when we exaggerate for the sake of effect, which is what we do. And believe me, there are many who agree with the sentiment.

Guild takes an almighty risk when it decides to unleash the bottled lightning of a riot. Easy to start, hard to control.

I'm going so far out on a limb here, you might as well call me a squirrel.

So what? You're no worse off than if you hadn't asked. At least this way you give yourself a fifty-fifty chance

She hung right out of the window and tugged at her shawl to show her purple hair. She tugged too violently, she jerked forward, she wobbled in her crazy red shoes – and then she fell.

I reckon, Billy, that there's such a thing as serendipity, that if you are meant to move on, you will. And I believe that if you imagine, and keep on imagining, a better life for your family, then events will conspire to present the opportunity to you. And when that time comes, you will make your decision, one way or another." "Bit of a gamble, though, ain't it?" "So is staying in one spot." Epilogue

The key was stealthily leveraging and launching, then asking for forgiveness

In technology, failure is often a precondition to future successes, while prosperity can be the beginning of the end

RIM's chief saw the semiconductor giant as a dangerous, tricky heavyweight whose every employee lived by former CEO Andy Grove's mantra, "Only the paranoid survive.

If you try it," Whip said, "you'll be thrown out on your inalienable ass.

the more committed a family becomes to a given project, the more vulnerable it also becomes.

the burden of the thinking man is to calculate the probable good against the possible bad and to decide whether the change will be worth the risk.

They headed northwest for a destination unknown, one man, one woman traversing barren lands that held no water, moving into canyons where desperadoes might be lurking, and crossing lands often ravaged by wandering bands of Hottentot and Bushmen outlaws.

So they parted, each man engaged in a gamble of staggering dimension: to fail meant ruin and death at the hangman's trap; to win meant the establishment of a nation founded on new principles whose possibilities were only dimly understood. In the hostile port of Nantes, where no man believed America could survive, Simon Steed had convinced himself of those new principles, and to them he was willing to dedicate his fortune and his life.

Perfectionism is the enemy of the idea muscle. Perfectionism is your brain trying to protect you from harm—from coming up with an idea that is embarrassing and stupid and could cause you to suffer pain.

It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

How do you get past this?" Diversification is everything. You get past "this" by having lots of "that"s.

I think bitcoin has about a 1 in 100 chance of being a survivor. So I have 1% of my portfolio in bitcoin.

There's no way to know in advance if a business idea is a good one. Google started around 1996 but didn't make a dime of money until around 2001.

Why buy a home with your own hard-earned money when you can use somebody else's?

But the reality is: reinvention is life. This is the call to adventure that constantly whispers to us. Do we answer it? Do we take the call?

A) Should I Daytrade? Only if you are also willing to take all of your money, rip it into tiny pieces, make cupcakes with one piece of money inside each cupcake and then eat all of the cupcakes. Then you will get sick, and eat all of your money, but it will taste thrilling along the way. Which is what day-trading is.