Quotes About Risk

No debes poner todos tus huevos en la misma cesta. A la inversa, no debes contar los huevos antes de que estén puestos.

I do say so. And I also say this: it's a goddamned lucky thing for both of us the gun wasn't loaded.

When every card in the deck is stacked against you, the only way to win a hand is to break the rules.

My father had a theory that poor people are the best drivers because they can't afford to carry car insurance and have to drive like they live, defensively.

One of the benefits of certain activities is the respect and admiration you get from others. This relates to difficulty and risk and ability in an obvious way. If climbing Everest were pleasant and easy, nobody would be impressed that you did it.

there are many things about yourself you just can't learn while sitting on your bum. Everyday life offers few opportunities to check out your capacity for bravery in the face of death or your tolerance for extreme physical challenges. If you want to know this about yourself, to test your mettle, activities such as mountain climbing seem like just the thing.

A veteran leader of an agency working among Muslims read my report, and he reflected: "The Nigerians remind me of how older generations went out. Today, I spend hours and hours on evacuation policies, hostage policies, and insurance policies. In the old days, we just went and died.

Security is a false God. Begin to make sacrifices to it and you are lost.

The trouble you don't get into, you don't have to get out of!

Abigail Adams is willing to risk her son's exposure to danger in Europe so that he can be at his fathers side, at an age where he can "most benefit from his father's example and precepts.

Suppose a country starts its independence with the three economic characteristics that globally make a country prone to civil war: low income, slow growth, and dependence upon primary commodity exports. It is playing Russian roulette. That is not just an idle metaphor: the risk that a country in the bottom billion falls into civil war in any five-year period is nearly one in six, the same risk facing a player of Russian roulette.

You need to create an emotional bond with people over security, make it resonate with them,You need to talk in a language they understand, whether that be risk, revenue, compliance, the impact on them personally – whatever it is, you need to make that connection

You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3.

I could never take a chance of losing love to find romance.

And if there is one thing I've learned, it's if you don't put it out there, they won't put it in there.

This distinction between believing-a-lie and disbelieving-the-truth is important because it forces attention to the twin dangers for the lie catcher. There is no way to avoid completely both mistakes; the choice only is between which one to risk more. The lie catcher must evaluate when it is preferable to risk being misled, and when it would be better to risk making a false accusation.

Ser sociable es muy arriesgado, incluso fatal, porque supone estar en contacto con personas, la mayor parte de las cuales son aburridas, perversas o ignorantes, y sólo lo buscan a uno porque no soportan su propia compañía. La mayor parte se aburren a sí mismos y reciben a los demás no como a verdaderos amigos, sino como una distracción...

Never get married in the morning–you never know who you might meet that night.

Never get married in the morning, because you never know who you'll meet that night.

J.M. Barrie was right; it is an awfully big adventure!

After all, it's rather difficult to achieve the exact minimum, and it involves risks.

If safety is a joke, then death is the punchline.

You gotta admit, it's a messed-up world when going to war is safer than staying home.

Rutherford's view was that if some armed nut decided to take out his frustrations on the congregation, he wanted to be prepared.