Quotes About Risk

If you swim in the ocean every day for 100 years, you are more likely to be struck by lightning than swallowed by a shark.

It is riskier to swim with another human than with a shark. Humans aren't just more likely to drown you - they're more likely to bite you.

Even if you built your house right at the perimeter fence of your local nuclear plant, you would still receive many times less additional radiation than an airline crew member would consider entirely normal, for example.

If what's behind that door is so terrible, shouldn't we carry a machete or two? A kitchen knife? An especially sturdy cocktail umbrella?" "There is no weapon on Earth one could wield against such terror!" he moaned. "Oh, I see. Then we should just go in unarmed. Well, fine. Lead the way.

When faced with a challenging or difficult situation, the best leaders most often respond with courage; less mature leaders, or nonleaders often choose another path-a path with less risk, less conflict, and less personal discomfort.

When you expect the best, one of the risks is that you will not be grounded in reality. However, optimism is not about ignoring the facts. You still need the facts. You also need people around you to tell you the truth. However, there is greater risk in expecting the worst. Pessimists will have trouble attracting followers. They will be timid and avoid risks. And the opportunity and rewards that go with that risks will forever illude the leader.

Wen grinned and I felt a warm glow and an odd dizzy sensation. And then I remembered something my dad once wrote me about falling in love. He said the phrase was apt because falling is exactly what it can feel like, as if you've finally allowed yourself to let go of some safety bar you didn't even know you were clinging to, and suddenly you find yourself tumbling towards the exciting unknown.

Humor is very very risky, particularly for a candidate, unless he's been in so long that it just doesn't matter, and he's not running for president. But it's just that people are so sensitive and so touchy, and you're just going to upset somebody without ever realizing it.

Sometimes you become so focused on protecting people from danger that you become the danger.

Our limited data force a sense of historical fragility: even as I nurture interpretation, I continually run the risk of creating it in my own image.122

Generally speaking, writers who have been at it for a while, and who are any good at it, suffer from an acute kind of self-knowledge. The unexamined life is not a risk for them.

As you get to thirty, the main thing is to not be sensible.

Pino saw the trials of the past few weeks in a different light, and he felt excited and filled with new purpose. "You want me to guide them, Father?" Pino asked. "The three Jews?" "Three of God's children whom he loves," Father Re said. "Will you help them?" "Of course. Yes." The priest put his hand on Pino's shoulder. "I want you to understand that you will be risking your life.

According to George Soros, what's important is not whether you're right or wrong about the market. What's important is how much money you make when you're right about a trade, and how much money you lose when you're wrong.

Sanjay had crashed his light aircraft when he was stunt-flying over central Delhi.

There is no security in life, only opportunity.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Put all your eggs in the one basket and—watch that basket.

By the Shadow of Death, but he's a lightning pilot!

Behold, the fool saith, Put not all thine eggs in the one basket, -- which is but a manner of saying, Scatter your money and your attention, but the wise man saith, Put all your eggs in the one basket and -- watch that basket.

October is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. Others are July, January, April, September, November, May, March, June, December, August and February.

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate when he can't afford it, and when he can. - from Following the Equator

There is risk, known and unknown, in all aspects of life. We often consider the loss of life the only serious risk. Unless we are genuinely aware, we calculate the danger arising from our own physical and emotional states and from external conditions based on incomplete information. If we believe we can manage those risks, we accept them. Whether these choices are born of delusion or reality comes out in the end.

Smoking is one of the leading causes of all statistics.