Quotes About Risk

It must have been so impossible to think about it and dare to do that, so they feel compassionate for her. I don't think the movie would work otherwise.

With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.

When my brother and I were 11, our father designed a 17-foot boat for sailing around the world. He'd never ventured more than a few miles from the U.S. He'd never sailed - or designed a boat before.

Unfortunately cybercrime is the crime of our generation.

There is always that one person in our lives who we deeply love, and that person can also destroy us.

Most of the great businesses of our time have experimented. Like Google.

Everything that we start is something that we don't know what the outcome is going to be.

You can't bank on the outcome.

Good decisions can have bad short-term outcomes but be great for the business long-term.

It's the adventure, the adrenaline-flowing, risk-taking in outdoor activities that attracts me.

I look back now and think, what was I doing, moving to Hollywood with $2,000 and a duffel bag? But there is no money in martial arts competitions, and in Hollywood, there is an outlet for those skills. And I have always been pretty fearless.

Every moment in life can be interpreted as a risk, depending on our outlook - and level of obsessive- compulsive disorder! I do my best to depend on my gut. If you sit with a decision long enough, your gut/soul will tell you what path to take.

When you try to do things outside of the box, you run risks.

I've kind of banned myself from motorcycles. I've had broken ribs, broken shoulder, wrists, leg, broken collarbone - and it was all from motocross or rugby. All of my injuries have come from outside of sailing.

As an outsider to and observer of the restaurant business, one of the things I most admire about it is the risks people are willing to take.

Those who ultimately shake up an industry are often outsiders who don't know any better.

I've got an outspoken personality, which gets people thinking, and my style of fighting is aggressive. Everything's on the line all the time. In my fights, there's drama.

I want to go public because I have the right reason to go public - because the benefits outweigh the costs.

I'm not much of a cook. I used to keep books in my gas oven - until someone told me it was a fire hazard.

We misjudge risk if we feel we have some control over it, even if it's an illusory sense of control.

It just seems like the whole, overall animation world is trying to go where maybe animation doesn't belong.

If it was really successful, it was a life calling, a career I was excited about doing, so I didn't think the overall risk was anywhere near as high as what the reward was.

If nobody can sell mortgage-backed securities based on trillions of dollars of unpayable instruments, there's a lot less risk in the overall system.

Making decisions quickly isn't for everyone, and I've had my disasters, but overall, it works for me.