Quotes About Risk

I like to windsurf and ski, and most of all I love to ride horses. The wilder and faster the better! If I'm presented with a fast horse or a fast boat, I still get that shiver of excitement and I cannot resist. Luckily I never seem to have any accidents, and thank God for that.

I know a lot of people who are struggling musicians; it's a hard life, and I've risked being that. The rewards are tremendous now that I've made it, I thank God every day. But I put it all on the line for it.

We walk around every day not knowing the exact level of risk and benefit associated with most of our actions, yet it remains our responsibility to decide what's worth pursuing.

Only crazy people don't do anything new and they expecting new result.

When you're young and fall off a horse, you may break something. When you're my age and you fall off, you splatter.

Four specters haunt the poor - old age, accident, sickness and unemployment

That however advanced any man may 'be-in' age or piety, he is still in danger of falling.

If you wish to obtain a great name or to found an establishment, be completely mad; but be sure that your madness corresponds with the turn and temper of your age.

The plan of "counting the chickens before they are hatched" is an error of ancient date, but it does not seem to improve by age.

We all understand what we signed up for, but then again, you don't want this to be a game that puts people in wheelchairs at age 40.

I wanted to try something different. Most people my age go off to college; I thought I'd try out New York.

I had accumulated some capital and was at an age at which I was interested in generating income. But even though I was risk averse, I was interested in growth stocks.

In an age of so many people getting hurt in real estate, it shows that you can still do well in real estate.

The twenty-first century is, and will remain, the Age of Insecurity.

If you look more broadly at injury, so it includes also accidents, it's the largest cause of death in children of school age in Mexico. It's an enormous problem.

I never dared be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.

If I'm going to fail, I want to fail trying.

Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.

Being alone onstage is like legalized insanity.

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

If you push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking risk, really amazing things can happen.

Delay always breeds danger.

The corporate approach to agriculture or manufacturing or medicine or war increasingly undertakes to help at the risk of harm, sometimes of great harm. And once the risk of harm is appraised as "acceptable," the result often is absurdity: We destroy a village in order to save it; we destroy freedom in order to save it; we destroy the world in order to live in it.

It's mighty hard right now to think of anything that's precious that isn't endangered.