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Quotes About Risk

My success has been as full of luck as a crapshooter's dream.
~ Adolphe Menjou
If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody.
~ Abraham Polonsky
People think I'm a lunatic or adrenaline junkie, but that's not what's going on with me. The beauty is what I'm most concerned with.
~ Dean Potter
E-cigarettes will raise your risk for lung cancer but also other cancers, like liver cancer.
~ Margaret Cuomo
I'm a bit crazy, so sometimes I just get these mad ideas that, on paper, aren't even possible.
~ Stormzy
Mad science is my middle name.
~ James Jannard
Everyone dreams of playing for Madrid, but we all know that it can be life or death.
~ Clarence Seedorf
I left for Madrid at 20 years old and I didn't really know how it would go.
~ Nicolas Anelka
Making movies, even though it's a business, is also an art, and sometimes you don't hit the bull's-eye.
~ Karyn Kusama
Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes.
~ Walter Becker
It's crazy to go into manufacturing. That's not where the money is.
~ Ken Hakuta
The margin between success and drama is fractional.
~ Jacky Ickx
For every Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook, there's 30 other entrepreneurs that started their business after working for several years.
~ Neil Blumenthal
On the other hand, it is quite a risk to spank a wizard for getting hysterical about his hair.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
You know this could kill me, don't you?' 'Look on the bright side,' said Howl. 'It could be me it kills.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
You can't be fussy when you're off to seek your fortune.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Yet 70,000–90,000 people in Warsaw and the suburbs, or about one-twelfth of the city's population, risked their lives to help neighbors escape. Besides the rescuers and Underground helpers, there were maids, postmen, milkmen, and many others who didn't inquire about extra faces or extra mouths to feed.
~ Diane Ackerman
Sometimes coloring outside the lines can cost you. Only you can figure out if it's worth it.
~ Diane Chamberlain
Anything could happen while the dead slept. Which was why some would say a woman shouldn't tread alone through a cemetery at 2:55 on a Tuesday morning in April.
~ DiAnn Mills
Good communication may not make a risky deal safe, but poor communication may sell benefits of a good deal.
~ Dianna Booher
I knew how one climbing the mountain of worldly success can slip down into the river below without being conscious of the descent till he is already drowning.
~ Diego Rivera
Entrepreneurs have a name for luck: they call it risk.
~ Dinesh D'Souza
You shout because it makes you brave or you want to announce your recklessness.
~ Don DeLillo
If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity.
~ Don DeLillo