Quotes About Risk

I've found that entrepreneurship only gets harder every year, and as your team gets bigger, the stakes get higher.

The stakes are high in politics.

A risk for a poet-novelist is imbalance: The poems can flatten into prose or lose their intensity of focus; the novels can stall amid lofty writing or literary preciousness and ignore the engine of plot and character.

Movie-making is an extreme sport on many levels. It requires stamina such as I had never imagined.

Hollywood loves pre-validation. Even if someone has a property that was first published as a comic book that sold only 5,000 copies, for Hollywood, that is a stamp of approval. 'Oh, it was already published in another medium? Must be good!' They get assurance from knowing that someone else already took the risk.

It's a heavy feeling being in Washington. There are so many important issues at risk. You're in a fighting stance every day.

It's important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They're the star.

To get a horse to hit a mark without a rider, to get it to stand up, to get it to rear, to get it to pick up a bucket and bring it over is amazing. It's hard work and very rewarding but can be dangerous.

Well, I started trying stand-up before I joined Google, actually. And then I went broke because that's what happens when you try stand-up comedy. You're actually paying to perform.

I stand squarely with our law enforcement officers who don bullet-resistant vests as part of their standard equipment and leave their home each day not knowing if they will return.

I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record.

When I'm dealing with Britney Spears and Katy Perry, these massive brands, like, really, very Coca-Cola, you know what I mean? There are certain kinds of standards. There are risks you can take, and there's risks that you don't. And I think I'm interested in taking a little more risk in my own music.

You don't break ground by doing the same thing over and over and over. That's like standing in place. You have to risk to gain it all.

Over a 10-year period, 99 out of 100 new entrepreneurs will fail. Only one will be left standing as others get pushed out of the market or burn out from working so hard. It's really sad.

The one certainly for anyone in the path of an avalanche is this: standing still is not an option.

You may confuse a lot of people when going against the grain of conventional thinking, and that's perfectly okay. As an entrepreneur, standing up for your vision to your family and friends might possibly be the best practice you will get for the life that awaits you.

We're certainly interested in maximizing our return and doing it - we're interested in maximizing our return, but we're also interested in doing it over a long period of time and in doing it in a way that never endangers the firm from a survivability standpoint.

For us as a firm, not only from a risk mitigation standpoint but also as a point of differentiation, it is incredibly important to get consistency and the very best individuals with the capabilities to do the very best job.

The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for.

Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.

Making movies is a dangerous job. Because you are always the one who stands at the center of the universe when making movies.

I make a dribble or a simple pass, knowing that if I lose the ball near the area, the opponent can score. I am aware of what I do on the pitch, but I always do it to help the team. That's why, occasionally ,I also boot the ball into the stands.

I will take less risks. When the options aren't appearing, I will clear it into the stands or play a long ball up front.