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Quotes About Risk

If you tell someone that getting a job and a salary might not be the best way to make money, in fact it might be the best way to go broke, this doesn't even compute. The investment bias is too large. "This is my entire life you're talking about!" This
~ James Altucher
The way to get easy money is to have the most noble character trait of all: being risk averse.
~ James Altucher
Just being an entrepreneur, without having multiple sources of income, without first taking care of the risks, is suicide. G)
~ James Altucher
Just being an entrepreneur, without having multiple sources of income, without first taking care of the risks, is suicide.
~ James Altucher
First off, people say "it doesn't hurt to ask" precisely when it does hurt to ask.
~ James Altucher
Picasso also says, "I am always doing things I can't do—that's how I get to do them.
~ James Altucher
In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
~ James Arthur Baldwin
REFERENCE RANGES FOR LDL CHOLESTEROL LDL Cholesterol (mg/dL) Category Greater than 189 Very high 160 to 189 High 130 to 159 Borderline high 100 to 129 Slightly above normal Less than 100 Normal Target Range: 80 mg/dL or lower
~ James B. LaValle
REFERENCE RANGES FOR C-REACTIVE PROTEIN (CRP) CRP (mg/L) Category Greater than 2.9 High risk 1.0 to 2.9 Intermediate risk Less than 1.0 Low risk Target Range: Less than 1.0
~ James B. LaValle
True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one's life
~ James Baldwin
It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be. One can give nothing whatever without giving oneself -- that is to say, risking oneself. If one cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving.
~ James Baldwin
Why am I going home? he asked himself. But he knew why. It was time. In order not to lose all that he had gained, he had to move forward and risk it all.
~ James Baldwin
We stared at each other across a narrow space that was full of danger, that almost seemed to roar, like flame. 'Come,' he said.
~ James Baldwin
One can give nothing whatever without giving oneself - that is to say, risking oneself. If one cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving
~ James Baldwin
To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger. In this case, the danger, in the minds of most white Americans, is the loss of their identity.
~ James Baldwin
The life you think you should want,' said Eric, 'is always the life that looks safest.
~ James Baldwin
To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.
~ James Baldwin
One can give nothing whatever without giving oneself—that is to say, risking oneself. If one cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving. And, after all, one can give freedom only by setting someone free.
~ James Baldwin
This is why the most dangerous creation of any society is that man who has nothing to lose. You do not need ten such men—one will do.
~ James Baldwin
This is why the most dangerous creation of any society is that man who has nothing to lose.
~ James Baldwin
But you can make your time together anything but dirty, you can give each other something which will make both of you better—forever—if you will not be ashamed, if you will only not play it safe.
~ James Baldwin
That the world calls morality is nothing but the dream of safety. That's how the world gets to be so fucking moral. The only way to know that you are safe is to see somebody else in danger-otherwise you can't be sure if you're safe.
~ James Baldwin
You play it safe long enough," he said, in a different tone, "and you'll end up trapped in your own dirty body, forever and forever and forever—like me.
~ James Baldwin
One can give nothing whatever without giving oneself—that is to say, risking oneself.
~ James Baldwin