Quotes About Risk

The desire to build a risk-free society has always been a sign of decadence. It has meant that the nation has given up, that it no longer believes in its destiny, that it has ceased to aspire to greatness, and has retired from history to pet itself.

The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence.

There is no such thing as no chance.

There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail

We get some of our best results by letting fools Rush in where angels dear to tread

The time for a business man to borrow money, if ever, is when he does not need it.

There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

There are two kinds of people who lose money: those who know nothing and those who know everything

It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal.

Porque a mera repetição do que é familiar conduz à estagnação, não é pouca a audácia exigida.

Para el líder, la gestión del riesgo es tan crítica como la capacidad de análisis.

At the end of my November 1973 visit, I suggested to Zhou a hotline between Washington and Beijing as part of an agreement on reducing the risks of accidental war.

The state is a fragile organization, and the statesman does not have the moral right to risk its survival on ethical restraint.

A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them.

Those who misrepresent the normal experiences of life, who decry being controversial, who shun risk, are the enemies of the American way of life, whatever the piety of their vocal professions and the patriotic flavor of their platitudes.

Se dice con frecuencia que más vale partir demasiado pronto que demasiado tarde, ya se trate de una carrera profesional, de una fiesta o de la vida misma.

Los neurocirujanos dicen a veces que operar un aneurisma se parece a la tarea de desactivar una bomba, aunque se requiere una valentía de otra clase y es la vida del paciente la que está en juego, no la del médico.

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.

Does this sharing raise the risk that confidential information will fall into the wrong hands? Sure, sometimes (although refusing to share information is often a smokescreen for political games). But contrast this with the benefits of having better-informed people all around.

can any organization really be sure of its strengths before it tests them? Every strategic change involves some new experience, a step into the unknown, the taking of some kind of risk. Therefore no organization can ever be sure in advance whether an established competence will prove to be a strength or a weakness.

I shoved three CDs up my ass and got them out of Tower Records. It hurt like hell but I did it. New Michael Bolton, new Sting, and the best of Sammy Hagar. Totally painful. Definitely worth it.

Freedom gives you everything you need to fail on a monumental scale.

Don't take candy from strangers unless you're willing to take a ride in the car.