Quotes About Risk

under no circumstances would he [Humbert Humbert] have interfered with the innocence of a child, if there was the least risk of a row.

I take my hat off to the hero who dashes into a burning house and saves his neighbor's child; but I shake his hand if he has risked squandering a precious five seconds to find and save, together with the child, its favorite toy.

Say, wouldn't Mother be absolutely mad if she found out we were lovers

Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.

Unless the technology makes buyers' lives dramatically simpler, more convenient, more productive, less risky, or more fun and fashionable, it will not attract the masses no matter how many awards it wins.

Corporate graveyards are full of companies that got to market first with innovative offerings not linked to value.

there is no such thing as a riskless strategy Strategy will always involve both opportunity and risk

Effective blue ocean strategy should be about risk minimization and not risk taking

opportunity-maximizing and risk-minimizing principles driving the creation and capture of blue oceans, the odds will be lengthened against your blue ocean initiative.

The aim of blue ocean strategy was straightforward: to allow any organization—large or small, new or incumbent—to step up to the challenge of creating blue oceans in an opportunity-maximizing, risk-minimizing way

Red oceans may not be the paths to future profitable growth, but they feel comfortable to people and may have even served an organization well until now, so why rock the boat?

The cost and risk of developing an innovative idea are borne by the initiator, not the follower.

Adventure is a great thing," said Simple, "which should be in everybody's life. According to 'The Late Late Show' on TV, in the old days when Americans headed West in covered wagons, they was almost sure to run into adventure--at the very least a battle with the Red Skins. Nowadays, if you want to run into adventure, go to Alabama or Mississippi, where you can battle with the White Skins.

Sólo porque algo no sea buena idea no significa que no debas hacerlo -Elizabeth

Female, I give you fair warning: you are playing with fire" - Tegan to Elise (Midnight Awakening

Someone remind me why I didn't want to be an accountant when I grew up," Brock drawled. Niko chuckled. "Because accountants don't get to make things go boom.

She felt like she was walking up on a wounded animal, unsure if reaching out to him was going to win her a bit of uneasy trust or a vicious taste of fang and claw.

Just because you're alive, doesn't mean you're safe with me. Don't make the mistake of thinking I'm some kind of hero.

Chiara." Her name was a raw warning. "This isn't a good idea." "I think it's an excellent idea." She stepped in closer to him. "There's something going on here with us. I know you feel it too. I know you don't want to feel it. I'd like to deny it, too, but I can't.

You take care out there. Don't freeze off anything you might need later.

You're a dark, dangerous storm, Nathan," She tilted her head back, her glacial blue eyes arresting, even in the darkness of the club. "If i'm not carful I'm going to leap off a cliff with you.

With him, I'm dancing right up next to the flames of everything I'm afraid of and I'm learning that I can actually enjoy the burn. With him, I'm learning that I crave it.

Don't let fear keep you from pushing your personal boundaries. If you do, you'll miss out on some of the most pleasurable things in life.

His voice was low and rough … "What about you? Do you like bad boys?" "There's definitely appeal," she breathed. "Good," He bent and clipped her earlobe with his teeth … "Because they don't come badder than me.