Quotes About Risk

If I had booked a car service, it would have delivered me to Princeton ten minutes before the meeting. Instead, I chose to save $115, and lost a $125,000 opportunity in the process.

There's little point in killing an idea by saying it might fail. Any idea might fail. If you're doing anything worthwhile at all, you'll suffer a dozen failures. Start failing so you can start succeeding

A lot of heroin overdose isn't overdose at all. It's the same dose as normal, but taken in an unfamiliar setting, it overrides the body's homeostatic

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

No one ever achieved greatness by playing it safe.

E,in zilele noastre un om de afaceri are tensiune cu carul, mai cu seama intr-un comert cu medicamente cu bucata, cind n-ai cum sa stii,dimineata, la deschidere,daca vreun ticnit de hippy n-o sa dea peste tine si n-o sa-ti arda un glont.

All progress occurs because people dare to be different.

He felt like someone going to a whorehouse for the first time.

Imperfect action is better than perfect inaction.

Within the first few months I discovered that being President is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or be swallowed.

For some idiot reason, the idea of going into the drink with a misspelled safety device weirded Bryce out.

While at the wheel, you are simultaneously dealing with issues in time, space, physics, and potentially, life and death – and all the while, you're wondering who's bringing the guacamole.

is easier to go without love than to accept a form of love that reawakens our fears of loss. In fact, to receive love feels far more dangerous than to be without it.

Writing, long term, is mentally risky but vital culturally and contributes to a non-boring life.

I like to do something I fear.

They'll torture you for months before killing you if you run" Otis shrugged, as if this was an everyday occurrence.

i was thinking that i'd like to try kissing you, joshua reed said.

it's funny - say no and you'll stay in the same place. say yes and who knows where you'll end up.

Well, Lockwood was an absolute sort of person, wasn't he? He wouldn't fall in love like tripping over a brick. He was the sort to rear back, run, catapult over the side of an airship's railing, and fall, fall, fall into love before smacking into the Ocean of Delirious Wanderings.* *Which would sever his limbs from his body on impact, causing Death by Unmitigated Joy.

understanding why we are susceptible to such illusions can provide insight into the risks of hyper-novelty.

the sheer number and breadth of medical conditions that vary in lifetime risk by birth month should be enough to make a thoughtful person rethink a wholesale rejection of careful astrological thinking.

He had a three on his forehead. Jay had a seven; Len had the queen of diamonds. Hank a ten, and David the queen of hearts. "Big bet, buddy, for a guy with your card," Len warned him. "Oh, yeah?" John said. "You should fold right now." "You don't say? My quarter is in." "You really should fold," David told John. "You think? I'm pretty sure you shouldn't even have bothered to ante," John told him.

Every police officer, every National Guardsman and woman, every person in law enforcement, as well as in the military, knew that they put their lives on the line. But none did so with the expectation of facing enemy fire in the way that these soldiers had.

Blind faith isn't always a good thing.