Quotes About Risk

The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth of government plus zero economic growth plus runaway inflation.

If some among you fear taking a stand because you are afraid of reprisals from customers, clients, or even government, recognize that you are just feeding the crocodile hoping he'll eat you last.

It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.

We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.

The chances of your being harmed by terrorists are mathematically minute. The chance of your being robbed by your own government? That's easy: 100 per cent.

With all this consumer debt, business debt, government debt, smaller movements in interest rates have a magnified effect. a small movement can tip the boat.

There is a growing body of evidence that radiation in excess of what the government says are the minimum amounts we should be exposed to are actually good for you and reduce cases of cancer.

Every decision in government is so important, especially when it comes to the military where thousands of people can lose their lives.

It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.

My nightmare scenario is that the government saves Citibank once again, as well as the other banks, and business resumes as usual. Then, the next time the system breaks, it breaks much, much bigger.

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.

When governments legalize and encourage gambling, they are creating addictions among their citizens

The risk from terrorism remains acute and the private market cannot continue to operate without a government backstop.

Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used.

You'll never know what you're capable of if you don't try.

So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality.

My favorite animal is the turtle. The reason is that in order for the turtle to move, it has to stick its neck out.

You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

Make glorious and fantastic mistakes.

I hope you'll make mistakes. If you're making mistakes, it means you're out there doing something.

Great things are achieved only when we take great risks.

You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.

A great artist has to be ready to fail.

When a great adventure is offered, you don't refuse it.