Quotes About Risk

about one-fifth of the cardiac output goes through the uterus at term increasing the risk from postpartum hemorrhage substantially.

I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.

If I had learned anything after years in the business, it was how little I could ever know about what the market would do tomorrow.

La vida, si no es una gloriosa aventura, no es nada».

Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They'll stay faithful as long as it's safe and doesn't involve risk, rejection, or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of challenge or temptation, they check to see which way their friends are going.

All I want to know is where I'm going to die so I'll never go there.

An example of a really responsible system is the system the Romans used when they built an arch. The guy who created the arch stood under it as the scaffolding was removed. It's like packing your own parachute.

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.

We were ordinary men called upon to execute a dangerous mission whose outcome was far from certain. The only thing that was certain at that point was that the aggressor would not surrender.

The greatest risks are never the ones you can see and measure, but the ones you can't see and therefore can never measure. The ones that seem so far outside the boundary of normal probability that you can't imagine they could happen in your lifetime—even though, of course, they do happen, more often than you care to realize.

Probability doesn't make mistakes; people using probability make mistakes.

Why did the entrepreneur cross the road? Because he could make more money on the other side.

If they were junior infantry officers, they survived, on average, three weeks. Enlisted men could expect twice that long in combat before they were killed, wounded or broke down.

This, then, is my choice: I can allow the events of my life to happen to me. Or I can take those very same actions and make them my own. I can live in my own present, risk failure, be assured of failure.

You live like this long enough, a life without chances, you lose your bearings. A life without danger. A life without the risk of Now. In any event, what do I need with Now? Now, I think, is overrated. Now hasn't been working out so great for me. Now never has.

It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself

Charlie Higson

Ed held his sword tight in both hands and went slowly and carefully down. There was the unmistakable smell of sicko down here and Ed's throat was very dry.

Course I'm scared. I'm always scared when we go somewhere we've not been before. It's good to be scared. Keeps you alive." - Ollie, The Enemy

Writing is a journey into the unknown.

We do not need, and indeed never will have, all the answers before we act..It is often through taking action that we can discover some of them.

Hey budding entrepreneurs, here is what you can do - Jump right in & make every mistake that everyone made before you when they jumped right in. Or, read up/study from those who have made the leap or work first for those currently leaping…

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