Quotes About Risk

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.

Most experienced scuba divers frequently use the Valsalva maneuver on descent to prevent "locking" of the tube. Scuba diving in the presence of preexisting dysfunction of the tube, when nasal congestion develops, or both are risk factors for severe tubal problems and barotrauma. It is probably not wise for individuals with chronic ET dysfunction to pursue the sport of scuba diving.

As market expert Jason Zweig puts it, "If we shopped for stocks the way we shop for socks, we'd be better off." We are wrong when we feel good about stocks having gone up, and we are wrong when we feel bad about stocks having gone down.

You'll live. Only the best get killed.

The lover steals a kiss. He incurs life imprisonment. (L'amoureux vole un baiser. Il encourt perpétuité)

The sailor dies in what makes him live. We will die in the air and in hope. (Marin meurt dans ce qui le fait vivre. Nous mourrons dans l'air et dans l'espoir)

Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.

It was so like Smith's work, so much more like the top of a strongly spiked wall than a head of hair, that the best of players at leap-frog might have declined him, as the most dangerous man in the world to go over.

I cannot tell you how dependent and uncertain I feel, and how exposed to hundreds of chances. All my expectations depend on one person. And how indefinite and uncertain they are!

put his foot where he cannot see the ground.

The things we need the most are the things we have become most afraid of, such as adventure, intimacy, and authentic communication.

Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.

The banks cannot hold back or withdraw from the dilemma in which their mode of doing business has placed them. They must carry the load to save their margins.

The size of the experiment should have been limited in proportion to the risk-adjusted potential of the opportunity.

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

I'm opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

Life is an inconstant mix of aces and jokers, and often one is flipped face up when we're expecting the other.

Love is a river of risk that ends in an ocean of security.

Never iron a four-leaf clover, because you don't want to press your luck.

We have all taken risks in the making of war and in the going into wars. Is it not time that we should take some risks to secure peace? So long as we think of peace in terms of war we shall never get peace.

Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines.

poets swing too high until the chain kinks and snaps mid-air the fall is poetry

Politics are almost as exciting as war and quite as dangerous. In war you can be killed only once, but in politics many times.