Quotes About Risk

I'm taking the chance, walking away, breaking the rules nobody here can tell me what to do.

The most critical risk of all, is not taking the risk if means be dangerous.

'Encore' was an experiment. 'Encore' was the second chance at a first impression. 'Encore' was not completely planned.

The only way to break out is to gamble - take a chance with that first pick if you wanna dramatically improve your team.

Communication is like the basics of mechanical engineering, the more moving parts you have the more likely it is to break down!

I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being instructive.

The kinds of errors that cause plane crashes are invariably errors of teamwork and communication.

If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked. What's more, you deserve to be hacked.

Investment success cannot be captured in a mathematical equation or a computer program.

If, for some reason, we make some big mistake and IBM wins, my personal feeling is that we are going to enter a computer Dark Ages for about twenty years.

If security were all that mattered, computers would never be turned on, let alone hooked into a network with literally millions of potential intruders.

CGI is to me like watching a cartoon. It can be effective, if it's done well. A lot of times you don't feel any real risk. You're watching a bunch of computer-generated graphics.

The typical computer network isn't like a house with windows, doors, and locks. It's more like a gauze tent encircled by a band of drunk teenagers with lit matches.

Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people

If you don't ask, the answer is always no.

Nobody ever died of discomfort, yet living in the name of comfort has killed more ideas, more opportunities, more actions, and more growth than everything else combined. Comfort kills!

Have confidence in the inventions and transformations of chance.

Self-confidence is something caught and not taught. And, risk-running and chance-taking are the only ways to catch it.

Positive obsession is about not being able to stop just because you're afraid and full of doubts. Positive obsession is dangerous. It's about not being able to stop at all.

Confidence by itself, unless it has a valid basis, can get us into trouble.

That takes a lot of confidence to let your actors come up with something that could be theoretically funnier than what you had envisioned originally.

Confidence tends to minimize the magnitude of the choice.

Confidence is simply that quiet assured feeling you have before you fall flat on your face.

A big ego isn't necessarily a bad thing. A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you're prepared to take the risk of trying them out.