Quotes About Risk

The term bubble should indicate a price that no reasonable future outcome can justify.

If no-one comes from the future to stop doing it, then how bad of a decision can it really be?

Our future is like that of the passengers on a small pleasure boat sailing quietly above the Niagara Falls, not knowing that the engines are about to fail.

All too often, the security of a mediocre present is more comfortable than the adventure of trying to be more in the future.

I don't know what the future holds. I just try to do roles that I haven't done before.

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be dangerously compromised.

AT&T invented the cellular telephone, but saw no future in it. It takes entrepreneurs, who are angels of destruction, to take advantage of things which the inventor cannot or does not see.

We have the same problem as everyone else: It's very hard to predict the future.

There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.

Past success is no guarantee of future success, so I have learned to be an entrepreneur. I began to produce and direct my own projects.

The more adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it is to make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that more people will make more plans in such areas.

We cannot truly plan, because we do not understand the future-but this is not necessarily a bad news. We could plan while bearing in mind such limitations. It just takes guts.

Aviation records don't fall until someone is willing to mortgage the present for the future.

Predition is risky, especially of the future.

If you understood a business perfectly and the future of the business, you need very little in the way of a margin of safety.

Any system which allows men to choose their own future will end by choosing safety and mediocrity, and in such a Reality the stars are out of reach.

I think the future of China's unknown, I don't know what direction it's going to go in. It could go in the right direction, it could. It could go in a very bad direction, too.

For to save mankind's future freedom, we must face up to any risk that is necessary. We will always seek peace - but we will never surrender.

I fear the future I wish for my children is at risk, so I'm taking action. Please join me.

The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one.

In the future, financial firms of any type whose failure would pose a systemic risk must accept especially close regulatory scrutiny of their risk-taking.

I have learned that nothing is certain except for the need to have strong risk management, a lot of cash, the willingness to invest even when the future is unclear, and great people.

To achieve goals you've never achieved before, you need to start doing things you've never done before.