Quotes About Risk

De acuerdo con la definición más sólida y aceptada, la disuasión dependía de convencer al objetivo de que los costes previstos superarían con mucho las presumibles ganancias; además, la disuasión se caracterizaba por limitar las ganancias al tiempo que se aumentaban los costes.

en la naturaleza de las cosas uno nunca puede intentar escapar a un peligro sin toparse con otro; pero la prudencia consiste en saber cómo reconocer la naturaleza de los distintos peligros y en aceptar el mal menor como la mejor consecuencia».[18]

El contraste, por lo tanto, no se establecía solo con la fuerza bruta, sino también con la imprudencia de todos aquellos que no eran capaces de captar las señales de peligro y que eran incapaces de pensar en las posibles consecuencias de sus actos.

We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life. —J. Robert Oppenheimer

I don't govern my life according to danger

They can sell at that price—and go broke and you can, too! If you base your price on your competitor's price—and they are going broke—you will, too. Typically, someone among your competition is going broke and usually is cutting prices on the way out. Owen Young, who is credited with having built General Electric, once said, "It's not the crook we fear in modern business; rather it's the honest guy who doesn't know what he is doing.

As will be discussed in detail below, it is my contention that such reluctance or delay will actually result in the risk of greater police force being used, because the officer who loses the initiative to an assaultive person will experience an instinctive urgency to "catch up" to protect them from the threat.

Why, if we feel anguish at the death of over 300 law enforcement officers in the attacks against America on September 11, 2001, do we seek actions in police officers that are less decisive and vigorous in dealing with locally threatening circumstances-thereby placing both the officer and the subject of the police response at much greater risk?

have lifted the window-well grate and climbed through the broken window to the basement and still leave a

In a sense, all fiction is experimental. Every new book is an adventure into unknown territory. As Hemingway told us, you (the writer) have to go out beyond where you have gone before.

A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.

The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile.

So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve.

In a company that was born to innovate, the risk is in not innovating," Jony said. "The real risk is to think it is safe to play it safe.

Jobs said that he looked to his hero Bob Dylan for inspiration. One of the things that Jobs admired about Dylan was his refusal to stand still. Many successful artists at some point in their careers atrophy: they keep doing what made them successful in the first place, but they don't evolve. "If they keep on risking failure, they're still artists," Jobs said. "Dylan and Picasso were always risking failure.

Danger is an aphrodisiac.

Living is a hazardous profession.

The cardinal sin in poker, worse than playing bad cards, worse even than figuring your odds correctly, is becoming emotionally involved.

Only about thirty poker players I can think of make serious money year in and year out playing poker. The rest make a killing one year, lose the next, or lose all the time and lie about it.

Courage is leaning into the doubts and fears to do what you know is right even when it doesn't feel natural or safe.

The only thing less secure than airplane Wi-Fi is running naked through Compton holding all of your money, jewelry, and credit cards in a baggie.

Exactly. If you keep up this pace much longer, you'll burn out, one way or another. Your body will quit on you, or you'll make a big mistake or take a foolish risk that either kills you, kills your career, kills somebody else, or all of the above. You've come pretty damn close to that twice already.

Cowardice was the fear of doing something because of the risk to one's personal safety—be it physical, emotional, or professional.

The Americans went into Pakistan to shoot that camel-fucker. Compared to that, crossing the US-Mexico border to cap him would be as risky as the secretary of defense sending a secretary to Starbucks to get him a latte.