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Quotes About Risk

Fortune sides with him who dares.
~ Virgil
Audaces fortuna iuvat (latin)- Fortune favors the bold.
~ Virgil
that thin' that scares you so much. The doin' will wring most of the fear right out
~ Unknown
Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
~ Unknown
But he never makes a call to ask for help. He cannot put his finger on precisely what is stopping him. He has had time to think about it. It remains an enigma. He scoured the internet in search of advice for pathological procrastinators. He drew up lists of what he had to lose, what he would be risking, and what he had to gain. It made no difference. He calls no-one.
~ Virginie Despentes
The cross] is a way of life that we live out. It is a practice that involves risk. It is a story that, if truly told, courts danger but moves also into hopeful solidarity, the solidarity of those who are moved by the pain of God in the midst of this world, or by the pain of the world in the midst of God.
~ Unknown
For one to grasp, whatever be his object, sov'reign power ... is an act of perilous presumption.
~ Vittorio Alfieri
if Saint Bruce doesn't like your poem, he chops your head off.
~ Vivian Vande Velde
Strahopetni umira tiso?krat, hrabri enkrat.
~ Unknown
Someone once said that a minesweeper makes only two mistakes: the first is when he decides to be one. The second …
~ Unknown
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
~ Voltaire
It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
~ Voltaire
It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
~ Voltaire
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
~ Voltaire
Casinos and prostitutes have the same thing in common; they are both trying to screw you out of your money and send you home with a smile on you face.
~ Unknown
If you ain't just a little scared when you enter a casino, you are either very rich or you haven't studied the games enough.
~ Unknown
Statistics may be defined as "a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty."
~ W. A. Wallis
Never give all the heart, for love Will hardly seem worth thinking of To passionate women if it seem Certain, and they never dream That it fades out from kiss to kiss; For everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy, kind delight. O Never give the heart outright, For they, for all smooth lips can say, Have given their hearts up to the play. And who could play it well enough If deaf and dumb and blind with love? He that made this knows all the cost, For he gave all his heart and lost.
~ W. B. Yeats
You've been driving in my sleep? Do you have any idea how dangerous that is?
~ W. Bruce Cameron
Being a repo man requires what Milt calls "nerves of stupidity":
~ W. Bruce Cameron
Let me drive. You wait until I get up to fifty-five miles per hour, and then jump out,
~ W. Bruce Cameron
Don't rely on market surveys.
~ W. Chan Kim
As companies compete to embrace customer preferences through finer segmentation, they often risk creating too-small target markets.
~ W. Chan Kim
It's the fear of the unknown that keeps a person from starting
~ W. Clement Stone