Quotes About Risk

In general, any productive activity which introduces substances foreign to the natural environment runs a considerable risk of polluting it.

If you drill, there's going to be a spill. It's axiomatic.

I don't like perfection - I think it's dangerous. There is nothing after perfection.

To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.

True Excellence requires a worthy dream, a good Idea of how to realize it and the courage to risk failure to achieve it.

It's kinda like being on a roller coaster. If you don't get on the ride, you won't experience the adventure.

A young Brit girl with no theatre experience decided to take on an iconic American role on Broadway. Maybe I should have thought that through?

The three most dangerous words in medicine: in my experience.

Please don't get hung up on this question of whether you need to have experience in an industry before you launch your startup.

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.

Markets are fundamentally volatile. No way around it. Your problem is not in the math. There is no math to get you out of having to experience uncertainty.

How could you tell children they were playing with fire if they´d never had the experience of being burned?

One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.

Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you should do this.

It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

The first rule of venture capitalism is hands-on experience. You have to get your hands dirty.

I like to bet on people, especially those who have taken risks and failed in some way, because they have more real-world experience. And they're humble.

By investing at a discount, Benjamin Graham knew that he was unlikely to experience losses.

Change often involves loss, so change can be a risky experience.

A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out.

All actors should experience public failure.

If something brilliant comes along but I really feel like it's too old for me - that I'm not gonna have the experience it takes - I'm not gonna do it. Even if it's "a big mistake for my career".

People have to experience things that terrify them. If they don't, how will they ever come to appreciate safety?