Quotes About Risk

Quite the opposite. I might fall on my face, but I feel born again.

Do not be afraid to offer ideas that draw opposition. Remember, if no one is against your idea, then your idea probably doesn't do anything.

The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.

There's always opposition when you do something big. I do many things that are controversial. When people see it, they love it!

I think more and more people these days go for the safe option in film making.

You just can't think of safe options always. You have to accept challenges head on.

Today as an entrepreneur you have more options.

Many in the world would have us choose safer options - keep this player, instead of taking a gamble on a player whose name you don't know. But when that player becomes Robert Covington, people are excited. We've chosen that sort of thing very often.

When I was younger I did some pretty wild things with the limited options I had.

But every crew that makes it to orbit is lucky. Spaceflight's not easy.

In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.

I was ordered not to go out to Abu Ghraib after dark early on, because Abu Ghraib was extremely dangerous.

Some of the most interesting research that I did was about risk assessment and how ordinary citizens like me handle risk assessment and how irregular our risk assessments are.

Social-sector organizations have to be better managed than for-profit organizations... because they have no margin of error.

If you truly want to innovate, there will be some failures, and this can be difficult for some organizations - especially public companies managing quarterly earnings.

If you are not frightened, you are not original.

If you don't hire originals, you run the risk of people disagreeing but not voicing their dissent.

Originality is dangerous.

Stuntmen bring a lot to the film industry, especially in action films, but if you start trying to give an Oscar for a stuntman, say he doubled a star, I think that takes away from the star's value.

I buy when other people are selling.

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

When you have an advantage, you are obliged to attack; otherwise you are endangered to lose the advantage.

The only way to do is just to go for it, otherwise it ends up looking phoney.

The more I do, the more frightened I get. But that is essential. Otherwise why would I go on doing it?