Quotes About Risk

Let's execute along this strategy, but know that we'll probably get some of this wrong, so be open to changing it.

That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.

I'm always looking for something very different from anything I've done. I'm attracted to a great script, and not necessarily a great character.

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study.

Predictability and great design are not friends.

How much would you pay to avoid a second Depression?

A flatterer can risk everything with great personages.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

I went into the world, threw myself into the world, and great things came out of it.

Football and gambling - two great American addictions working together. What could possibly go wrong?

When I hear [about a housing bubble] I get the sense that people aren't connecting the dots.

A great artist has a unique vision...obsession. They are someone willing to fail flamboyantly.

The Tour de France would make a great movie. Drugs, corruption, political chicanery, guys risking their lives - everything you need for a great sports drama.

Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.

Guidance requires action, but it does not guarantee safety.

Happiness is an enemy. It weakens you. Suddenly, you have something to lose.

So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?

Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.

That cotton trade was almost the deal breaker for me. It was at that point that I said, "Mr. Stupid, why risk everything on one trade? Why not make your life a pursuit of happiness rather than pain?

Quite possibly, what I call happiness may coincide with what others call the moment of imminent danger

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy. You won't get there by reading 'Now is the time to buy.'

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. Sure, everybody wants to play God, but for me it's a full-time job. What you don't understand, you can make mean anything.