Quotes About Risk

When you work under the cloud of anxiety, the best strategy is to play it safe, because if (when!) it fails, you'll be blameless.

Either you're going to shoot us or you're not. The ball always lands on red or black, never both.

Because truly big companies don't like taking gambles on small people ~unless it is a guaranteed return.

A decorator can make lots of money - assuming she wins the lottery.

Storing your car in New York is safer than entering it in a demolition derby. But not much.

I've tried everything other than jumping out of a plane, but nothing gives you an adrenaline rush like racing a car.

You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.

I'm probably more dangerous in a car than I am on a motorbike; on a bike I'm very mindful of the fact that if you make a mistake you're dead.

Driving a race car is like dancing with a chain saw.

Let me ask you. If someone called you and offered you a ride in the Indianapolis 500 and you were a male race car driver, would you turn the ride down?

A 99% Value-at-Risk calculation does not evaluate what happens in the last one percent... This is like an airbag that works all the time, except when you have a car accident.

I've been looking at used car bargains. I'll frankly confess I'm scared to death of Fords. I've seen and heard of so many turning turtle.

I will continue to get behind the wheel of a racing car as long as I am able. But that could all end tomorrow.

Snowboarding is like driving a car. When things are all right, you're on it. But when things go wrong, it goes really, really bad really fast.

It's hard to send your baby off on a plane without you, though that's less reasonable, because sending him off in a car is statistically a bigger risk.

I'm sorry about your Porsche." "I can replace the Porsche. I can't replace you. You need to be more careful." I was just sitting in your car!" Babe, you're a magnet for disaster.

At least 50 times. I've jumped off a building, jumped off a cliff in a car. I've been in bedrooms when women came in with knives and guns.

Running a casino is like robbing a bank with no cops around. For guys like me, Las Vegas washes away your sins. It's like a morality car wash.

Uh uh uh, turning the car into oncoming traffic... is counterproductive!

I've never had a car. Like I can drive, but I'm always at the risk of killing people.

There is always a chance of failure, of producing something totally unnecessary. But I guess that chance of failure is what makes tightrope walking, race-car driving.

More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works.

By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion.

I think the chances are better of me putting Super Unleaded into a rented car.