Quotes About Risk

Every day I wake up a little afraid. Only a fool is never afraid.

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

It's your own fear of failure that stops you from doing things.

We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fear has always made me feel worse.

It's such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string — when one slips off, all the rest follow.

The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.

In finance everything that is agreeable is unsound and everything that is sound is disagreeable.

Private equity has absolutely no reason to exist. The private equity holder has all the upside and the banks all the downside.

Deposit insurance has proved to be the crack cocaine of American finance.

High finance trembles in its boots whenever there is some political complication.

Whenever there is a a financial crisis, it is always the banks that get hit.

People who don't like scandals shouldn't be in finance.

If you do not understand how finances are functioning, you are in a very precarious situation, at least concerning long-term survival.

The alluring, long-shot chance of a huge gain is the grease that lubricates the machine of innovation.

If you don't make mistakes you are not really trying.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.

Security for agriculture merits serious concern by not only the agricultural community but our nation as a whole. The risk to the U.S. food supply and overall economy is real.

If you are going to a destination where the food might be more exotic than usual, always err on the side of caution.

Now that healthcare is guaranteed, I'm frying everything I eat. Fried food and cigarettes.

Because our agriculture is so spread out, that makes it vulnerable. Our food gets transported a number of times and very widely.

It's easier to beg forgiveness than ask permission.

Don't ask permission, just ask forgiveness.

Forgiveness is easy. Trust is much more difficult, and should never be given lightly.