Quotes About Risk

I was safe. Uncomfortable as hell, but safe.-Bobby, RR

D.J. MacHale

If something comes around that would be a challenge, then that would be wonderful. But if it's a watered-down version of something I've already done, I'd rather do something else.

In markets, there are times when you are looking for what makes sense. At other times, you are looking for what you can do that is sensible versus constraints and uncertainties.

I thought poker might be a perfect environment to start to learn probabilistic decision-making, and to live what it means to have skill versus chance and to see how that played out. I would dive in head first into the poker world.

Children malnourished at age 5 tend to suffer permanent physical and mental damage. So if I can save a child from malnutrition, I find it has an extremely favorable risk-reward ratio - the cost I incur versus the overall benefit that I can bring to society.

In tournament play, it's generally advisable to avoid risking large sums of chips in coin flip situations, like pocket sixes versus A-K. After all, the pocket pair is only a very slight heads-up favorite.

If you ask 99.9 percent of parents who have children with autism if we'd rather have the measles versus autism, we'd sign up for the measles.

There are still journalists who risk their lives in situations of conflict, versus those who sit behind a desk at 'News of the World' to report on whether someone is going out with somebody or not.

I'm not a very patient person. I'll take those quick risks to see if it's going to work versus taking the long and tortuous road of trying to guarantee myself that something will work. That's like self-mutilation to me.

I made a series for ITV, just after I retired from Tests in 2009, called 'Flintoff Versus the World.' The idea was that I would attempt a series of extreme sports - rodeo riding, jumping out of aeroplanes, paragliding, cliff diving. I thought, 'Yeah, it looks fun. It's six weeks having a laugh.'

I love to read about the exploits of technical mountain climbers, but I've never done any vertical climbing.

But I have vertigo... I lose my equilibrium easily. I can lean out to look at something and just keep leaning and not realize I'm about to fall.

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.

Radium could be very dangerous in criminal hands.

What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much.

Criminals look at identity theft and say only 1 in 700 criminals gets convicted of it. And they look at check forgery and they know that for every 1,400 forgers arrested, only about 123 get convicted and about 26 go to jail. So the rewards are great, but the risks are very slim. So that's one of the reasons that make it very popular.

I'm never sure one is exactly ready. You jump in, with both feet, into a very big fish pond.

I think quotes are very dangerous things.

I take risks because I get bored. And I get bored very easily.

I've always seen first responders as unsung heroes and very special people because, when everyone else is running away from danger, they run into it.

Normally, I always had a machine gun in my car and a bulletproof vest.

Great political leaders risk unpopularity, patiently explain their case and confront prejudice, bigotry and vested interests.