Quotes About Risk

Design isn't risky - change is. Good design mitigates that risk.

Banking is very good business if you don't do anything dumb.

I don't like expeditions where it is a total lottery whether you live or die. You have to keep those sort of good luck cards for rare occasions!

The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they got burned terribly.

Keep your money in your pocket. Or bet it on a good horse.

Anybody who knows how to make a good movie, knows that it's a collaborative undertaking. To deny that its really dangerous.

This is one of the innovator's dilemmas: Blindly following the maxim that good managers should keep close to their customers can sometimes be a fatal mistake.

New ideas can be good and bad, just the same as old ones.

We always feel safest, I think, around the most dangerous person who's on your side, more than the nice good person who's on your side.

I think it's a really good thing to put yourself in a situation where you feel really uncomfortable because I think things can come out of that discomfort.

Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.

Protecting yourself from failure is probably not a good way to live.

There is a banking adage that if it's growing like a weed, it's a good chance that it's a weed.

Running around in the grass near an unsecured structure and a bunch of trees is a good way of taking yourself out of the gene pool.

Goldstein, you'd be a pretty good boy if you wasn't so chicken.

The good thing about the Anvil school of filmmaking was that it was fly by the seat of your pants. There was no safety net.

The best ideas often look terrible at the beginning the truly good ideas, don't seem like they're worth stealing.

No. He'll get hurt, and he's a good person.

You never know whether something will be good.

Whenever I see something that looks like it could be good - whether it's on vinyl, CD or cassette - if it's not too expensive, I'll take a chance.

Luckily we never injected because both of us were totally scared about needles. So that probably saved us. And the other thing that saved us was our connection was not very good.

It is not good not to have health insurance that leaves the family very vulnerable.

If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.

The prudent capitalist will never adventure his capital . . . if there exists a state of uncertainty as to whether the Government will repeal tomorrow what it has enacted today.