Quotes About Risk

I don't know about you, but rattlesnake sounds pretty damn good right now.

Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality; if I could have pushed hard and attacked. But then I would have had a good chance of making a mistake.

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.

Entrepreneurs are great at dealing with uncertainty and also very good at minimizing risk. That's the classic great entrepreneur.

I wouldn't want to roll the dice on Kabul by myself, because I really think getting killed is definitely a possibility there. A very good possibility.

You create a work of art. You do not know whether it will get public sanction. Sometimes outstanding films do no business, and sometimes films which are not so good work.

Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.

You don't want too much fear in a market, because people will be blinded to some very good buying opportunities. You don't want too much complacency because people will be blinded to some risk.

Some people say it might be good for your career to die and then come back again. I have died many ways, car crashes, motorcycle crashes, etc. But, I am still alive.

Could we have prevented in 100% certainty? I don't think anything is that certain. However, we would have had a very, very good chance for preventing it.

The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.

The very act of becoming an entrepreneur is contrarian to middle class values, study hard, get a good job, be happy with secure income and steady salary.

There's a pretty good chance that you're going to go down when you're on a motorcycle or if you're sky diving or whatever, but that happened before I even got this job, and I haven't sky dived since.

I quit because I'm so tired of hearing bad news about cigarettes... Even if they discover good news, they don't publicize it - like the fact that smoking seriously reduces the risk of jogging.

My advice to the unborn is, don't be born with a gambling instinct unless you have a good sense of probabilities.

Do not be afraid to go into uncharted territories. You might find some pretty good things there.

Like my good friend Eminem the rapper says, you only get one shot.

If you start getting instability in large powers with nuclear weapons, that's not a good day.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Fear is never a good enough reason to do nothing

Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.

It feels good to push yourself into uncomfortable territory. There's nothing more thrilling than feeling like, "This train might just come off the rails right now, in front of these people".

Nobody ever got started on a career as a writer by exercising good judgment, and no one ever will, either, so the sooner you break the habit of relying on yours, the faster you will advance.

You can't stop everything from happening. But we've gotten to a point where we're certainly trying. If a car doesn't have four hundred air bags in it, then it's no good.