Quotes About Risk

The newly-minted captain is told to let nothing stop him but to do nothing that would risk his ship or his crew.

HE WHO DARES NOTHING NEED HOPE FOR NOTHING. BUT HE WHO DARES WINS

Protection works and you need it. You need it because sound becomes painful around 125 dB. Short-tem exposure that is pretty certain to cause damage and hearing loss begins around 140 dB. Firearms? They run 145, 150, 160, 165 dB. Pick a number, it doesn't matter, you will lose hearing. A "quiet" 12-gauge load at 140 dB is going to damage your hearing a bit slower than a magnum at 165, but you will go deaf.

Reason finally holds a gun at its head - and does not always miss.

Those of us who refuse to risk and grow get swallowed up by life.

The stock market has predicted nine out of the last five recessions.

If you always make the right decision, the safe decision, the one most people make, you will be the same as everyone else.

It's better to regret what you have done than what you haven't.

Risks are a measure of people. People who won't take them are trying to preserve what they have. People who do take them often end up having more. Some risks have a future, and some people call them wrong. But being right may be like walking backwards proving where you've been. Being wrong isn't in the future, or in the past. Being wrong isn't anywhere but being here. Best place to be, eh?

Start taking bad decisions and it will take you to a place where others only dream of being.

Even when we want to be timid and play it safe, we should pause for a moment to imagine what we might be missing.

Getting what you want means making the decisions you need to make to get what you want. Not the decisions those around you think you should make. Making the safe decision is full, predictable and elads nowhere new. The unsafe decision causess you to think and respond in a way you hadn't thought of. And that thought will lead to other thoughts which will help you achieve what you want. Start taking bad decisions and it will take you to a plce where others only dream of being.

Life is short. The world is big. It awaits your exploration. If you're not living on the edge, you're just taking up way too much space.

You know what?" he said with great earnestness. "I think we're both afraid of the same thing. And for the same reason. We've never managed, either one of us, to get all the way into life. We're hanging on to the outside for all we're worth, convinced we're going to fall off at the next bump. Isn't that true?

Security is a false god; begin making sacrifices to it and you are lost.

Physical courage is the type involved in overcoming the fear of physical injury or death in order to save others or oneself. Moral courage entails maintaining ethical integrity or authenticity at the risk of losing friends, employment, privacy, or prestige. Psychological courage includes that sort required to confront a debilitating illness or destructive habit or situation; it is the bravery inherent in facing one's inner demons.

Childhood is built on bad decision-making.

If you're in a job that feels safe, you are not going to get exceptional, because if there is no danger there is almost certainly no leverage.

If you're in a job that feels safe, you are not going to get rich, because if there is no danger there is almost certainly no leverage.

If you want to create wealth (in the narrow technical sense of not starving), then you should be especially skeptical about any plan that centers on things you like doing.

It takes confidence to throw work away. You have to be able to think, there's more where that came from.

Only when people are free to worship, create, and build, only when they can decide their destiny and benefit from their own risks—only then do societies become dynamic, prosperous.

The gods tempt us. They offer us riches and sweet smelling women, tres leches, each milk sweeter than the one before. But you cannot beat the gods. The grander house and the bigger deal only mean more borrowed time, more risk. When you build your life on a house of cards, you never know when the joker will turn up.

A lawyer who's afraid of jail is like a surgeon who's afraid of blood.