Quotes About Risk

That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.

Fear of failure is the fuel of achievement. If you weren't afraid to fail, you probably wouldn't be highly motivated to work at the level that most of us have to work at to do well.

There are a lot of ways that investment banking models work, but these risks are not internalized by the people that are taking them.

The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt.

It's good to go with your gut instincts in life. You just should. Even if it doesn't work out, something good will come out of it.

The real problem with all drugs is that they work. Fantastically. They're great, right up until the moment they kill you.

If you decide that you're going to do only the things you know are going to work, you're going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table.

You always feel very vulnerable when you put your work out there. You feel a kind of nakedness. And you expose something of the inner workings of the way you experience life.

Things are rarely just crazy enough to work, but they're frequently just crazy enough to fail hilariously.

Fear is faith that it won't work.

Any work that is really great hovers between terrific and terrible.

If I don't die by Thursday, I'll be roaring Friday night.

Instead of expending time to train yourself not to be afraid of snakes, avoid them altogether.

I believe I'm doing the right thing in trying to step away from that and to take chances and work on little independent films and do stuff like that wild dance scene.

One could imagine a period like Japan13 years ago, however, in which indexing over time wouldn't work.

It's hard to know at any stage whether a show is going to work or not. Every few years, a different trend comes along.

To mess around with Ebola is an easy way to die. Better to work with something safer, such as anthrax.

Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger.

Wrecks are going to happen in this business, that's just a risk of the sport. If you can't keep from worrying about it, then you're in the wrong line of work.

My aim was to make money for the bank. You lose track of the amounts involved when you are engaged in this kind of work.

I'm always afraid of failing. It's great motivation to work harder.

Success isn´t guaranteed, but failure is certain if you aren´t truly emotionally invested in your work.

In such doubtful matters, where you have to work as a pioneer, you must be able to put some trust in your intuition and follow your feeling even at the risk of going wrong.

If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you'll never do anything good.