Quotes About Risk

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.

As a leader, one must sometimes take actions that are unpopular, or whose results will not be known for years to come.

Let your courage rise with danger.

In love, unlike politics, caution is not usually a virtue.

If I preached unity, I must act like a unifier, even at the risk of perhaps alienating some of my own colleagues.

los que corren grandes riesgos a veces se enfrentan a graves consecuencias.

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Criminals were a lazy bunch. If they weren't, they'd get their MBAs and rob with impunity.

perhaps love was like the mumps. If a woman came down with it after forty, it could kill her

I know you've taken risks to do these things. Do Please be careful." "Don't worry about me," he said. "You've got enough troubles on your own plate, my word. But we'll come out all right, so long as we just keep alive, that's all we got to do. Just keep alive another two years, till the war's over.

Round the next corner and in the next street Adventure lies in wait for you. Oh, who can tell what you may meet Round the next corner and in the next street! Could life be anything but sweet When all is hazardous and new? Round the next corner and in the next street Adventure lies in wait for you. That

It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institution and merely lukewarm defenders in those who gain by the new ones.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order to things.

All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.

Another risk is that if the wrong kind of immune response is elicited, the body might attack itself in what is known as an autoimmune reaction. This happened with the flu vaccine in 1976, when many patients developed a kind of paralysis (from which most people recovered) known as Guillain-Barré syndrome.

The 1918 influenza pandemic famously had a W-shaped curve. The very young and the very old were at increased risk, but there was also elevated risk in the middle of the age distribution, spiking in patients around twenty-five years old. Scientists have been studying this for decades but are still unsure why it happened.

An analysis in South Korea showed that outbreaks were more common in Zumba classes than Pilates classes for a similar reason.49 Heavy, rapid, deep breathing or shouting may be a risk factor for transmission, whereas slow, gentle breathing is not. But being indoors itself plays an important role.

But many other activities also called for greater independence, from home cooking, to home haircuts, to the performance of minor home repairs. Why risk having a plumber come over if he might have the virus?

His ships might arrive in time to save the day, or they might arrive in time to be destroyed in their turn.

Whatever doubts there may have been about their seamanship, there were none as to their courage.

he would have to go due south instead, around the outside of Majorca and Ibiza – pirate waters,

The manoeuvre was difficult at the best of times. In the dark, it was almost impossible.

Managing the Money Pit," I turn to the practical managerial implications of the commoditization of IT. Stressing the importance of controlling cost and risk, I offer four guidelines for IT investment and management: spend less; follow, don't lead; innovate when risks are low; and focus more on vulnerabilities than opportunities.

Anybody who has spent time in Indian brothels and also, say, at Indian brick kilns knows that it is better to be enslaved working a kiln. Kiln workers most likely live together with their families, and their work does not expose them to the risk of AIDS, so there's always hope of escape down the road.