Quotes About Risk

There is no guarantee that starting a small conversation will lead to something larger. But the failure to take any step at all, no matter how small, comes with an ironclad guarantee that we will not be part of helping change happen.

The obsession with security at any price petrifies us, and we increase our fear by trying to eliminate risk. That is what is ridiculous about the great outcries in the media: we wake up in order to demand more passivity, a better protected life. The challenge is not only to decrease the amount of space the media devote to hazards but also to increase our ability to resist misfortunes. To augment our endurance rather than our panic.

You think that you can walk on water Better be careful, it gets mighty deep

Fly Heisenberg Airlines – we don't know where we are, but we're making damned good time.

the likelihood that those estimated future cash flows will actually materialize (risk), how large those cash flows will likely be (growth), how much investment will be needed to keep the business ticking along (return on capital), and how long the business can generate excess profits (economic moat).

It's easier to apologize than ask for permission.

It is what we love the most / can make us most afraid

Intelligent men are dangerous.

Feeling scared yet? Want to go somewhere safe?" "It won't help, will it? We'd just run into Godzilla or the Vampire from Hell. Trouble just follows you around." "Hey, Trouble. Let's find out what your mysterious Indian wanted us to know.

A man who will risk nothing for love is not a man

Love," he said, "is always a risk, isn't it? I've always thought that there were no certainties in life, but I was wrong. Love is a certainty. And love always gives more than it takes.

Mercedes," said Asil in a cheerful voice. "You are going to get me killed at last. Bran would not do it, but I believe your mate will have no trouble.

Sometimes the only action you can take leads to more trouble. (Honey)

Of course, if Charles found out his father was out here, too, the damn fool would probably head right back into the maw of danger; he was that kind of heroic idiot.

Life is not safe. A man might spend his whole time on earth staying safe in a basement, and in the end, he still dies like everyone else.

Just because something is dangerous does not make it evil. (Adam)

The next time you leap into a burning building after me, you'd better make damned sure I'm in there. And wear your shoes, damn it.

The one who made that poor shadow is long dead." The wolf in human-seeming almost glowed with power. "They have neither the learning nor the power to make him again. They would not have risked him if they had known who was here. I have made him free, my poor brother that was.

It is difficult for a chicken to make an alliance with a fox--you never know when you'll be eaten for breakfast.

bit my tongue. I liked being safe. Being in Adam's arms was safe. Talking to Coyote was anything but—and where was I? I supposed he had a point.

I bit my tongue. I liked being safe. Being in Adam's arms was safe. Talking to Coyote was anything but—and where was I? I supposed he had a point.

It's bad to have an enemy with the kinds of resources these people apparently have—but it is infinitely worse to have crazy people as enemies.

Chaos is not predictable. To imagine anything else would be dangerous.

We hadn't brought a tent. Even if it rained, we couldn't afford to blind ourselves like that when we slept.