Quotes About Risk

For most people, startups are a risky endeavor and something to be avoided. Many are hesitant to quit their secure jobs and try to start a company from scratch.

As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving.

Nations don't have friends; they have interests. The best motivation for a state to act if it is remote from an epidemic is if its own security is at risk.

Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, and others have stated that they think AI is an existential risk. I disagree. I don't see a risk to humanity of a 'Terminator' scenario or anything of the sort.

It's perfectly reasonable to say that AIs are potentially dangerous. That seems to me like a statement of fact.

My hair is such a statement that it's like a neon sign asking for trouble.

Trump's campaign is not a collection of ignorant statements. It is a candidacy of hate and fear that poses serious risks to people of color, women, people with disabilities, immigrants, and LGBTQ people.

When any part of the Station is moved from its designated location to do a repair, we really risk losing things.

I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant.

On 'Grey's,' if you have a bad day as a doctor, you lose a patient. But what's crazy about 'Station 19' is if you have a bad day as a firefighter, the patient dies, or you die, or your partner dies. It's a whole other level of stakes.

Both poker and investing are games of incomplete information. You have a certain set of facts and you are looking for situations where you have an edge, whether the edge is psychological or statistical.

I first got into gambling because it was a way for me to leverage my love of baseball statistics. For the first few years, that's all I would focus on.

I base jumped off the Jesus statue in Rio de Janeiro.

The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers.

Low socioeconomic status carries with it an enormously increased risk of a broad range of diseases, and this gradient cannot be fully explained by factors such as health-care access.

The continued erosion of the one country, two systems framework puts at risk Hong Kong's long-established special status in international affairs.

The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.

Most legacy companies get crushed - they get Blockbustered - because they are too afraid to walk away from the status quo, to embrace what the future is.

I really think it would be cowardly to pull back and not challenge the status quo, when the status quo may not be the right way for the field to go.

People are scared to speak out against the status quo: their jobs and livelihoods, they believe, are at risk.

Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.

If I revealed all that has been made known to me, scarcely a man on this stand would stay with me.' and 'Brethren, if I were to tell you all I know of the kingdom of God, I do know that you would rise up and kill me.

If I knew I couldn't win races, I would have stayed in the States.

I don't know that I'd be a comedian if I stayed in Canada.