Quotes About Risk

Making good choices is a matter of life and death when you grow up in environments predisposed to violence, crime, and social failure, environments loaded with risk factors and often barren of developmental resources, where what you and your parents bring to the equation is crucial in an unforgiving way.

If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty.

Business is all about risk taking and managing uncertainties and turbulence.

We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.

The markets don't like instability and they don't like uncertainty.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

Uncertainty is seen to retard investment independently of considerations of risk or expected return.

Some people feel affronted when something they thought to be true doesn't happen. If that's the case, then your sense of risk is much higher, and that leads to risk aversion. You need to be able to be comfortable in uncertainty.

Companies don't like uncertainty; travelers don't like uncertainty.

I'm in the camp that needs to discover and take risks, sometimes it's with the promise of something special and new, sometimes it's to stay awake, either way it's much more stressful with all the uncertainty but worth the pain in the end.

The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism.

Uncertainty's not good for anybody.

Investors don't like uncertainty.

I look at decisions like - it's like an Indiana Jones movie. The guy comes to a rope ladder, and he's being chased. There's uncertainty on the other side, but he knows when he gets to the other side, he's going to take his machete and cut the rope ladder behind him. He has no retreat.

From an early age I was very, very fascinated by uncertainty.

Most business people today are not going to invest in the uncertainty that exists in America.

I don't like uncertainty. I don't play poker. I don't like bluffing.

An entrepreneur must deal with more uncertainty than a professional with a well-defined role.

Uncertainty helps keep actors on edge.

It's not just exciting to build things but to explore new fields and to recognize what comes with that is a lot of uncertainty.

Whether baseball or football, we're tasked in front offices with making decisions under uncertainty. How do you corral that uncertainty in a way to make more consistently better decisions? That's very similar.

Poker is all about comfort with uncertainty, after all.

Don't be afraid to step through some of that uncertainty that you might feel when you're passionate about doing something.