Quotes About Risk

I've had many challenges - every entrepreneur does - it's the nature of the beast.

Value investing by its very nature is contrarian.

If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.

I really love nature. I grew up in the country. But one of the things about nature is that it is beautiful but it's also very dangerous.

It is exciting and emancipating to believe we are one of nature's latest experiments, but what if the experiment is unsuccessful?

I think the most common meme is that it's too difficult to change. It's too risky to change. My nature doesn't allow me to change.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

I have seen travel plans happen only when they were made overnight.

To have risked so much in our efforts to mold nature to our satisfaction and yet to have failed in achieving our goal would indeed by the final irony. Yet this, it seems, is our situation.

When people run out of probable things to do, they do improbable things.

All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

A careless risk undertaken thoughtlessly or in pursuit of a thrill is recklessness, but a hazard confronted for the glory of God is a different matter altogether.

Hasty climbers have sudden falls.

The growth stock theory of investing requires patience, but is less stressful than trading, generally has less risk, and reduces brokerage commissions and income taxes.

Traditionally the investor has been the man with patience and the courage of his convictions who would buy when the harried or disheartened speculator was selling.

Great men wait for the right moment to abandon caution. The rest of us abandon it when impatience becomes too much for us.

Patience is not learned in safety.

Never change horses in midstream.

And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?

Some are saving their right now for later, when tomorrow could be never.

We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn't it time that we should take risks to secure peace?

Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.

The arts can open the door to the imagination, pushing the envelope of how peace can be created. It takes courage to take this kind of risk, and courage is what we all need to create a better world.

The absence of risk is a sure sign of mediocrity.