Quotes About Risk

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

The greatest opportunities today are to go into business for yourself as an entrepreneur.

The idea that growth equals profitability is a misconception. If you can't afford the financial or qualitative side of growth, it can just as easily put you out of business.

If you don't invest in risk management, it doesn't matter what business you're in, it's a risky business.

I think the people who've been the most overconfident in our business in the last decade have been the people that called themselves risk managers.

It's a dangerous business, going out your door.

The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business is to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down.

There are no rules in the entertainment business.

If you never want to be criticized, for goodness sake don't do anything new.

No one can measure the loss of business that may arise from a defective item that goes out to a customer.

Thinking of getting into the leg-breaking business, so I can profitably sell crutches later.

A business model that hasn't been tried before is always interesting, even if it's likely to fail.

I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise.

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running; if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Let's face it, space is a risky business. I always considered every launch a barely controlled explosion.

Obvious prospects for physical growth in a business do not translate into obvious profits for investors.

You must take risks, both with your own money or with borrowed money. Risk taking is essential to business growth.

Shark Tales: How I turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business.

It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost, and at any risk to the rest of the community.

Financial hydrogen bombs built on personal computers by 26-year-olds with MBAs.

It's when you take that first step opening a business or making an investment that it becomes real.