Quotes About Risk

Risk management is the explicit quantitative declaration of uncertainty. But in some corporate cultures, people aren't allowed to be uncertain. They're allowed to be wrong, but they can't be uncertain. They are obliged to look their bosses and clients in the face and lie rather than show uncertainty about outcomes. Uncertainty is for wimps.

Risks and benefits always go hand in hand. The reason that a project is full of risk is that it leads you into uncharted waters. It stretches your capability, which means that if you pull it off successfully, it's going to drive your competition batty. The ultimate coup is to stretch your own capability to a point beyond the competition's ability to respond. This is what gives you competitive advantage and helps you build a distinct brand in the market.

Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.

A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.

I've seen sharks in the ocean, it hasn't made me get out of the ocean; that's for sure.

I'm scared of heights and I'm scared of the ocean.

At 19, I decided to turn professional and accepted my first fight for $250 at the Atlantis Hotel, Atlantic City, on October 3 1985. It set up my whole career and life.

When you're young, oddly enough, you're more afraid, more conservative about what it is you have.

Anybody who is an entrepreneur is a person who essentially has impaired judgment. The odds of success are zilch.

When you choose to be an actor, you are going against the odds.

I believe in myself and the goodness in others, and I think anyone who rolls the dice with me has good odds.

One of the secrets to happiness is knowing when to take chances. If you don't, the odds are that you will fall into a rut.

I don't take a lot of notice of odds.

The odds of becoming a NASA astronaut - you have a better chance of getting hit by lightning.

It's easier not to make a particular joke in case it offends. But every joke will offend someone, and I've always believed that the audience is bigger than one person. The danger is that things will become bland.

Sometimes I'm convinced that one day I'm going to draw the cartoon that offends everyone, and that'll be the end.

I think the 'New York Times' would rather be offended than dead.

You can lose a game with the kicking game faster than you can with offense and defense.

Duane lived life right on the edge. If you ever read Goethe's Faust, Duane Allman was very much that kind of figure. His deal with Mephistopheles was to experience everything life has to offer, good and bad.

Most of the time, I do what I'm offered, but after I worked for it. I think I try much harder for the things that scare me and inspire me. The things that scare and inspire you are things that are different from what you did before.

1977 is the year I made my first movie. Shortly after, I was offered quite nice roles in television. The general consensus among everyone was that I'd be out of my mind to do that.

I chose to continue independent because, at the time I was being offered deals, it wasn't fitting into what I'd imagined. I decided to take a gamble on myself and see what happens.

For all its ubiquity and its universality, war offers the attraction of the extraordinary - the escape from the gray everyday, from the humdrum into higher things.

My first film by itself was very daunting and though I had offers, I didn't take them because I wasn't too sure.