Quotes About Risk

The biggest risk to Quebec isn't sovereignty. It is staying in Canada.

If you put on your business hat, you can't maintain competitiveness by staying at a competitive disadvantage. I mean, you just can't. The odds are just not in your favor.

Change doesn't come from staying in your safe space.

Here's a big risk: Staying with my husband during the blackest time in our marriage. Several years into our marriage, I wanted to walk away, and I didn't.

Once a company develops out of its consumer base, you will often see a well-funded multinational company come in and take over that space. The black-owned company either stays a niche company or just disappears. This is something we don't want to happen.

I want to be someone who takes risks but also stays engaged by trying new things.

I think whether it's a good idea or not to take the startup plunge comes down to the responsibilities of the individual. If you have a family to care for or a huge mortgage payment, then quitting your steady day job to launch a startup probably isn't the best decision to make.

I was 25 when I'd told my parents that I was giving up steady work as an electrician to become an actor. They couldn't have been less enthusiastic if I'd proposed starting a commercial newt-breeding operation in the bathroom.

Gamble, cheat, lie, and steal. Let me explain: Gamble for your best shot in life - dare to take risks. Cheat those who would have you be less than you are. Lie in the arms of those you love. And finally, steal every moment of happiness.

The front of a cheque alone gives someone enough information to steal your identity.

We had a field day before anyone knew anything about shorting. It was almost a license to steal. Nowadays, it's a license to get hosed.

If you want to steal, steal a little cleverly, in a nice way. Only if you steal so much as to become rich overnight, you will be caught.

So to make those checks better, I used to steal lollipops and sell them at school - but I got caught.

I don't want to get on base and just run for the sake of running. What good is it if you steal 100 bases and get caught 60 times?

If the opportunity is there to steal a base, I try to steal it.

Of all the plays in baseball, stealing home is by far the most exciting.

Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing.

Me and my partners had been stealing cars for a while.

Blind stealing is not exclusive to late position play. You can steal blinds from any position, and you should!

With stealth technology, the U.S. could spy on its Cold War adversaries without running the risk of getting caught.

There's nothing so interesting as a steam roller that's about to be derailed.

You need nerves of steel if climbing aboard a rocket is your career path.

And that's the mistake that was made with Steel Pier. Roger was caught between a rock and hard place. It would have cost a couple of million dollars more to take it to Boston or someplace first. So we opened about a month too early.

At a time when nobody thought we'd ever see a new steel mill built in America, we took a chance and built one in a corn field in Indiana. Today Steel Dynamics is one of the largest steel producers in the United States.