Quotes About Risk

Adding to the danger, Pritchard disregarded Balchen's advice about the best way to touch down. He hand-cranked the Duck's landing gear into place, intending to treat the ice cap the same as he would a paved tarmac. It was a calculated risk. A belly-down landing might damage the Duck's fuselage or curl its propeller, rendering it yet another squished bug on the ice cap. On the other hand, a wheels-down landing could lead to the same result.

The promise of America has always been that if you worked hard, had the right values, took some risks, that there was an opportunity to build a better life for your family and for your next generation.

Business and growing jobs is about taking risk, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always striving. It is about dreams. Usually, it doesn't work out exactly as you might have imagined. Steve Jobs was fired at Apple. He came back and changed the world.

Finally, she mused that human existence is as brief as the life of autumn grass, so what was there to fear from taking chances with your life?

A writer should always bravely face life, risking death and mutilation in order to dethrone an emperor.

Heads, I win; tails, I don't lose much.

He bought an existing business with a well-defined business model and one with a long history of operations that he could analyze. This is waaaaaaaay less risky than doing a startup.

nunca tan pocos tuvieron la posibilidad de hacer tanto daño a tantos a un precio tan bajo. Es

In the twenty-first century, power is easier to get, harder to use—and easier to lose.

la relación entre Fidel y el Che Guevara se deterioró hasta el punto en que el argentino prefirió arriesgar la vida en peligrosas misiones guerrilleras en países como el Congo o Bolivia que quedarse en Cuba enfrentado por Castro.

los poderosos de hoy suelen pagar por sus errores un precio más elevado y más inmediato que sus predecesores.

To pull the chestnuts out of the fire with the cat's paw.

Truthfully, he would break every rule he had, every promise he'd ever made, and go to all the trouble in the world for this girl and she had no idea. None.

You're wild now, too. And brave. What else do you want to be?" "I want to be with you." The words slipped out before I could stop them and I heard him suck in a sharp breath. The brittle silence told me I'd done something I couldn't ever undo. I'd changed everything.

How loving Ronan felt like an act of recklessness and at the same time the safest thing I'd ever done. Maybe, I realized, that's what love was. It was being terrified of the leap but being sure of being caught.

We were two fucking animals eyeing each other up. It shouldn't be sexy. But it was. Because it was dangerous and wrong and that was just the way I liked my sex. This was my favorite flavor. O'Keefe, M.. Burn Down the Night (Kindle Locations 1443-1445). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

Shadows fell across us, a flicker in dim light. Somebody passed at the mouth of the alley. He said, "We could both be killed." I whispered, "Sure. In grade school, a boy choked on Jell-O, it's that common." I laughed, drunk on our future. Death seemed a small risk. "We can have the world.

Hope is a perilous thing, Quinn.

Start badly, start scrappy, but just start. You may lose, you may win, but you will never know if you do not begin.

To go somewhere and say: "I have this really terrific movie, but I need some . . . money" - Good luck!

Feet, she thought. Sea legs. When you pass the last spit of land and commit to the ocean, you are taking a step into the infinite and might set your foot down anywhere.

When you train your employees to be risk averse, then you're preparing your whole company to be reward challenged.

One has to abandon altogether the search for security, and reach out to the risk of living with both arms. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing.

You haven't lived until you've died in California