Quotes About Risk

Bobsledding is like sprinting with NASCAR. You get to push these 400-pound sleds as fast as you can down a hill and hop in. How could you not enjoy that?

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

It's a very dangerous and lonely thing, I imagine, to be a spy: to have friendships that are deceptions, that are not honest.

Spy plots are hard, really hard.

Since real spies are so good, you never really know what actual spying is. But I do think spying is a lot more dangerous than we are led to believe.

This is boxing - you can't really say what is going to happen because anything can happen in that square ring.

If you squeeze and squeeze, and you don't allow the Iranians to sell any oil, then what do they have to lose by shutting the Strait of Hormuz down? And if they do that, that's 35% of all the world's oil that comes through the strait and 20% of the liquefied natural gas in the world.

Instead of going to the ends of the Earth - and plumbing the depths of the oceans - to squeeze out every last drop of oil, we need, instead, to do everything we can to reduce the risks of offshore oil and gas production.

I'm a high-risk taker on the court in the sense of trying to squeeze things in there.

We won't look at New Orleans, St. Louis or Memphis again without thinking about making 'Mississippi Grind.' We have a lot of memories.

Free trade and economic stability do not, by themselves, guarantee success.

When the positions of so many managers is precarious, and there isn't long-term stability, I can understand why they are loath to risk.

For people who have for been putting their hard-earned money into the system for years, the president's idea would replace their safety net with a risky gamble with no assurance of a stable return of investment.

You have to decide if you want something stable and safe or if you want to take a risk and go outside the formula and try something new. That's everything that dance embodies.

Any call that jeopardizes a big chunk of your chip stack just because you think your opponent might be on a bluff is flat-out wrong.

My whole business philosophy is based on a risk-reward ratio. But it's got to stack up. If it doesn't, don't do it. You might as well go to a casino.

Casino games such as roulette, blackjack, baccarat, slot machines and so on, are stacked in favour of the house.

Let me parachute out of a plane, land on a stadium, and announce it. I'll do it. I'm always game for something.

Playing to a stadium is not for everyone because you are essentially gambling, big-time. You have to go all in on production. You can't hold back.

Coming out with records when you're in a big, successful group that plays stadiums, that's scary to come out by yourself.

Outdoor stadiums scare me to death.

Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.