Quotes About Risk

The most dangerous place I've ever performed standup is in my home state of California.

Life is not worth living for which a man is not prepared to die at any moment.

I believe that every man has in his soul a passion for treasure-hunting, which will often drive a coward into prodigies of valour.

The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.

We ought to fear a man who hates himself, for we are at risk of becoming victims of his anger and revenge. Let us then try to lure him into self-love.

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

I'll play any man from any land any game he can name for any amount he can count…Provided I like it!

Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other men. Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.

Luck comes to a man who puts himself in the way of it. You went where something might be found and you found something, simple as that.

Advertising is like learning - a little is a dangerous thing. If a man has not the pluck to keep on advertising, all the money he has already spent is lost.

The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.

Wall Street's graveyards are filled with men who were right too soon.

All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory.

I am wise enough to know that there are some perils from which a man must flee.

A broker is a man who runs your fortune into a shoestring.

There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it

He, general or mere captain, who employs every one in the storming of a position can be sure of seeing it retaken by an organized counterattack of four men and a corporal.

The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward.

The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win

Forward into the untrodden! Courage, old man, and hold on to your umbrella!

Men fear to lose as much as they hope to gain.

Prospecting for oil is a dynamic art... The greatest single element in all prospecting, past, present and future, is the man willing to take a chance

Imaginative, sanguine men will never recognize that in negotiations the most dangerous moment of all is when everything is moving according to their wishes.

Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.