Quotes About Risk

If radioactive waste were dissolved as water soluble compounds and then widely dispersed in the oceans, no health or other environmental risks would ever occur.

When youre young, you dont think very far ahead. You just think in terms of the next day, the next week, the next competition. You dont think about injuries that could threaten your long-term health.

If our financial industry regarded security the way the health-care sector does, I would stuff my cash in a mattress under my bed.

Every man that has felt pain knows how little all other comforts can gladden him to whom health is denied. Yet who is there does not sometimes hazard it for the enjoyment of an hour?

There is no threshold level of fine particle pollution below which health risk reductions are not achieved by reduced exposure.

The natural resources we've depended on, if the places where they exist are not stable, our own livelihood and our health is put at risk.

God himself helps those who dare.

I've got a long history of suicid in my family; the good news is it skips a generation, so, if I'm lucky, my kids will kill themselves.

I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it.

Reps once took chances on art, History's most treasured musicians were believed in and cultivated to reach their potential. Today, it would be difficult for those musicians to get deals.

At no point in history have so many non-risk-takers, that is, those with no personal exposure, exerted so much control.

I believe for the first time in history, entrepreneurship is now a viable career.

We are about to change history, said Saphira. We're throwing ourselves off a cliff without knowing how deep the water below is. Ah, but what a glorious flight! (Eragon to Saphira)

One phrase you don't want kicking off your obituary is, Never, in the long history of bungee jumping.

There is no glory in war, yet from the blackness of its history, there emerge vivid colours of human character and courage. Those who risked their lives to help their friends.

You have to understand what market history looks like. What market history tells you is that the very, very best investments are made when things look the worst.

You have to be a little bad to make history.

History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.

The fact that there was no catastrophic pandemic in recent history does not mean there won't be another one. And we are certainly not prepared for the next pandemic.

When you don't know the rules, you break them all. It's hard to take big risks when you know the history of an industry and what has worked and what didn't.

I'm defining [presidential courage] pretty narrowly. It's not only taking a big political risk but it's also the risk that in the hindsight of history, people think it's wise.

Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate.

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.