Quotes About Risk

Man works to be wealthy, but gambles to be rich.

Viagiar descanta, ma chi parte mona torna mona

Never sell a dull market." I believe that this was intended for bull markets, for it appears just as dangerous to "buy a dull market"—during a bear market.

If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!

So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?

No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it up to forced consciousness expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten.

The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

Faster, faster, faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.

If this goes badly and I make a crater, I want it named after me!

An emerging market is a country where politics matters at least as much as economics to the market.

Never invest yourself in anything so deeply that its failure could cost you your happiness.

Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes,' otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.

Never say 'no' to adventures.

The great lie of democracy, its essential paradox, is that democracy is first to be sacrificed when its security is at risk. Every state is totalitarian at heart; there are no ends to the cruelty it will go to to protect itself.

The ultimate computer game would be a 'total addiction' - a game that shapes itself to the elements you most like to play in such a manner that it totally satisfies you. You never want to stop playing. However, any self-configuring activity always has such risks inherent in it. Will we see one day the goverment insisting that games have time limiters the way that some motor vehicles have speed limiters?

Sometimes I think we're all gentlemen of the road. It's just that most of us haven't got the courage to take that first step.

You only regret the things you haven`t done !

The Japanese people were rapidly succumbing to what would later be called shoribyo, or "victory disease"—a faith that Japan was invincible, and could afford to treat its enemies with contempt. Its symptoms were overconfidence, a failure to weigh risks properly, and a basic misunderstanding of the enemy.

Once I get something going well, I'll risk fucking it up just for the action.

Don't get too hung up on working with any one person, because it's like a game of checkers where dudes are hopping over one another all the time, shouting, "King me, motherfucker!" It's checkers, yo. But with a lot of money at stake.

and found me suitable for parole. Almost immediately, the San Diego DA wrote the governor's office appealing the finding of suitability. The DA argued that I still posed a significant risk to public safety. The victim's family were also strongly opposed to my being released. It was eighteen months later before we had a second hearing.

Based on our findings, we feel that Mr. Pierce would no longer pose an unreasonable risk to society, and we do find him suitable for parole." I shook Keith Watley's hand, but I wasn't about to celebrate. He'd already explained to me that there's another 120-day waiting period.

gangbanging was pretty much "on-sight." Meaning, if you got caught in the wrong place wearing the wrong color, they'd just shoot you.