Quotes About Risk

You really believe that? He took a step toward her.' I'm risking Sin's life by putting off what I have to do to Kynan. I'm doing that for you. Not for Kynan or my brothers. I took a knife for you. I've kissed you over and over when I never kiss anyone. So why the hell would I want to see you suffer?

Be careful, little killer. The Fates can fuck with you in ways you can't even imagine.

Love is like jumping off a cliff, even when you know you're acrophobic.

You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself, and for the firefighter it is fire.

moving our focus in the social and behavioral sciences from risk to resilience and from a concern with individual deficit and pathology

In other words, risk-focused studies do not generally give us research-based answers or prevention

Markets compensate investors with expected returns commensurate with the degree of risk they take. By investing in asset classes that are higher risk, and therefore higher return, an investor can expect to outperform the market as a whole—while acknowledging that they are accepting greater risk. These higher risk, higher expected return asset classes are small-capitalization stocks, value stocks, and small-value stocks. An

While investing in equities always entails risk, the longer the investment horizon, the more likely it is that equity investors will be rewarded for taking incremental risk—assuming they have the ability to remain disciplined during periods of economic crisis. Disciplined investors think bear markets are really just periods when the market temporarily wears a big "for sale" sign. On

The safest port in a sea of uncertainty is diversification.

America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.

When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for people telling you that you are nuts.

FELIX: Whoever thought you'd die from having sex?

The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in.   - Robert A. Heinlein

What is the dirty little secret of innovation? It's simply this: most innovations fail.

Buffett knows that a down market is when investors should be buying, not selling.

Life isn't like a box of chocolates. It's more like a jar of jalapenos. What you do today, might burn your butt tomorrow.

I have done the merry-go-round and I have ridden the roller-coaster. I have made my choice. I choose the roller-coaster. There is more risk when you choose the roller-coaster, but at least you will know you have lived.

Da linedanseren var kommet halvveis, tok tauet slutt.

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.

The doctor is to be feared more than the disease.

Hey, 27. Way to skip HistCulture and almost die. Classy." "Yeah," I said, matching her nonchalant tone. "It was so much fun. You should try it sometime. Did the drone…?" "Leave yet? Yes. Did it mean to fly in our airspace? My opinion is no, which I'm writing up in this report that will most likely be ignored," Eva sighed.

I'll take my chances. It has you." And when a great man says something smart like that a smart woman just shuts up.

Ambrose Redmoon wrote, "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the decision that something else is more important than fear.

Ah, y le sugiero que para la próxima vez que se enamore, ¡no sea tan cobarde!