Quotes About Risk

It is better, however, for his own reputation that the story-teller should risk a few actions for libel on account of these unfortunate coincidences than that he should adopt the melancholy device of using blanks or asterisks.

In school, we learn that mistakes translate into bad grades. This unfortunate lesson gets burned into our brains, and we go through life shunning challenges that might end in failure.

There's only one way to gain mountain sense, and that's to be in the mountains a lot. Unfortunately, when you're a young climber, you have none. You're out there, and your risk level is high.

Unfortunately, slow and steady in any financial market is actually impossible.

Kids only learn that the stove is hot when they put their finger on and they burn it. This, unfortunately, is the limitation of our precious brain.

I love first chances, but unfortunately, first chances don't always work out for everyone, and I'm a perfect example of that.

Let's make sure that we don't close down 37 of the 42 clinics in Texas and leave women with nowhere to go and put them in a situation where their health will be at risk, because what we do know is that closing down the ability to access that service unfortunately does not take the need away or women's confronting that issue away.

I've probably been in some dumb situations snowboarding. I'd say snowboarding in general isn't a dangerous deal, but you can get yourself into some bad spots. Unfortunately, I have probably been pretty dumb with that in getting off the beaten path.

I don't know why so many artists talk about the mainstream's problems from the fringe. I think, unfortunately, it's almost like our education makes us too safe and terrified to step into the world.

To become wise you have to want to experience certain experiences, and so to run into their open jaws. This is very dangerous, tobe sure; many a "wise man" has been eaten up in doing so.

Proverbial wisdom counsels against risk and change. But sitting ducks fare worst of all.

We are all born to fly. Instead, we sit on the branches afraid of the leap into the unknown. But the unknown is where enlightenment lives. Our true nature is the unknown.

Having no curiosity can be a dangerous thing..

Impulsivity is something akin to spontaneously jumping out of an airplane and not realizing that you forgot something until about five seconds before impact.

The pursuit of any worthwhile goal requires that you give up something that feels comfortable, secure, and safe in the moment to get you closer to your future dreams.

If your prudence stops you every time from taking an action, then you are no more prudent, you are frightened.

Don't always use prudence for precaution, sometimes use it for progress.

Faster is fatal, slower is safe.

The price of success is the risk of self-esteem.

Wisdom comes at a price. But the price you have to pay shouldn't guide your decision to invest – the expected return should.

Our best-laid plans are often our worst-made decisions.

In a cruel world kindness is certainly an unsafe virtue

If you swim with sharks, make sure you have the appetite of a whale.

It is only safe to mock a crocodile when you have crossed the river.