Quotes About Risk

I have a bad gambling problem. You're not in show business for 12 years and dress like this without a bad gambling problem.

You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.

The quickest way to become a millionaire in the airline business is to start out as a billionaire.

Whales only get harpooned when they come to the surface, and turtles can only move forward when they stick their neck out, but investors face risk no matter what they do.

I shall make it my business to take my chances in the matter of libel suits.

There isn't a single business where anybody feels secure.

Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.

The real fortunes in this country have been made by people who have been right about the business they invested in, and not right about the timing of the stock market.

It is a bad business, dealing in lottery tickets ... Riches got in such a hasty manner never wear well.

Any time an investment company has to spend heavily on advertising, it's probably a bad business in which to invest.

Sometimes you have to destroy your business in order to save it.

We always look at the margin of safety in the balance sheet and then worry about the business.

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

No one has the right to not assume that the business cycle will turn! Every five years or so, you have got to assume that something bad will happen.

You don't run a business hoping you don't have a recession.

Because to confide a part of your soul to something that can think and move for itself is obviously a very risky business.

I didn't leave business school to go bankrupt.

No decision in business provides greater potential for the creation of wealth (or its destruction, come to think of it) than the choice of which innovation to back.

The average for entrepreneurs is 3.8 failures before they finally make it in business.

Do your homework or hire wise experts to help you. Never jump into a business you have no idea about.

Casinos don't bring business except for the gambling boys

We don't want to give a business that is not going to come through the troubled waters a loan that they can't pay back.

It's a roll of the dice in the movie business. I mean, every single movie is a roll of the dice. Any movie on paper could look like it's going to be fantastic. You know what I mean?

Will Ferrell is a dangerous man. If he thinks you're in his way in show business, he will crack your head open. He's the Jeff Gillooly of comedy.