Quotes About Risk

I grew up in San Diego, so it wasn't hard to move to L.A. to get into show business, but I did the standard thing of just moving without much money and just seeing if I could make it work.

There are many comedians who are afraid to work outside the coasts and the casinos because they're afraid they'll bomb.

I don't think it makes any sense for an individual to invest in common stocks unless they know the company, work at the company, and so on.

You work for the devil, you better be ready to die for him.

If we can possibly avoid wrecking this little planet of ours, we will, But-there must be risks! There must be. In experimental work there always are!

The work you are treating is one full of dangerous hazard, and you are treading over fires lurking beneath treacherous ashes.

The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected.

I want to show up to work and take risks. I don't ever want to play it safe.

I think you can have a whole terrific, smart career as a second and third banana and work more and have much less risk than the lead guy. But I like being the lead guy.

I remember thinking, 'I'll audition just once and if it doesn't work out I'll never think about it ever again.'

Do you know what the costliest phrase in technology is? 'It will work because it would be cool if it did.'

If you run, you might lose. If you don't run, you're guaranteed to lose.

Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk.

The more that I work with people that I don't know, the more I invite somebody in who's potentially going to really hate being there.

I'm gonna see how this works out, but I think it's a bad idea.

Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset.

Prudence is not the same thing as caution. Caution is a helpful strategy when you're crossing a minefield; it's a disaster when you're in a gold rush.

You need to pick your spots and bet big when you identify them. That's basically my 'Jeopardy!' strategy in a nutshell.

Many investors make the mistake of buying high and selling low while the exact opposite is the right strategy.

Since the reduction of risk factors is the scientific basis for primary prevention, the World Health Organization promotes the development of an integrated strategy for prevention of several diseases, rather than focusing on individual ones.

In gambling, you usually start to go wrong when you deviate from your pregame strategy.

That strategy of buy and hold, which is the sound and sensible one for the individual, can have very dangerous and perverse effects for the market as a whole.

Hussein has a strategy. I'm sure he'll implement that strategy, and it would be to our detriment. We're embarking on an exercise about which we know nothing.

You can gain a lot of time from an aggressive strategy, but you can lose a lot of time from an aggressive strategy.