Quotes About Risk

I love you more than I hate cars, so I decided I'd try to face my fears and take some risks.

She ought to be intimidated by this shaggy beast of a man, but she wasn't. She'd had a husband—a daring, risk-taking husband of her own—and his lapse in judgment had cost them all. Dearly. "It's dangerous out there

As the economy began to improve in the early 1940s, she made small deposits into five local savings banks for Kiki's education. Having lived through the crash, when banks closed their doors and customers' deposits vanished, she was unwilling to entrust all her savings to a single institution.

Never trust a poker player.

A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered the most ridiculous thing on earth.

Travel is a joy, full of surprises. Perhaps some of the most enjoyable times are those where one comes close to disaster: the risks add spice, and make for great stories when you are safely back home again.

Travel is a joy, full of surprises and astonishing new experiences. Perhaps some of the most enjoyable times are those where one comes close to disaster; the risks add spice.

Fear is a funny unpredictable thing.

To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.

The trouble with bubbles is, they burst.

If we chose to refuse irony, we risk becoming irony's dupe.

Tell me one thing. Are you going to hack into SKC servers with this?" "It's an option." "You could go to jail for that." He smiled. "They would have to catch me." "And that would never happen," she said with a dash of scorn. "I don't make too many mistakes, Kenzie." "Sometimes I wish you would," she sighed.

The people who denied who they were or where they had been were in the greatest danger. They were blind sleepwalkers on tightropes, fingers scoring thin air.

You know the mistrust of heights is the mistrust of self, you don't know whether you're going to jump.

But I knew one more thing. That people who denied who they were or where they had been were in the greatest danger.

I tried to say beware the room is laid with traps and hung with hooks.

But it is Charlie's philosophy that a first-rate man should be willing to take at least some difficult jobs with a high chance of failure. And just as he decries making money "with lily white hands," he believes that giving time, talent, and risking his reputation is just as important as contributing money.

Let me put it this way: as long as the odds are in our favor and we're not risking the whole company on one throw of the dice or anything close to it, we don't mind volatility in results. What we want are the favorable odds. We figure the volatility over time will take care of itself at Berkshire.

The difference between a good business and a bad business is that good businesses throw up one easy decision after another. The bad businesses throw up painful decisions time after time.

The game of investing is one of making better predictions about the future than other people. How are you going to do that? One way is to limit your tries to areas of competence. If you try to predict the future of everything, you attempt too much. You're going to fail through lack of specialization.1 Charlie Munger

Hedge funds have made massive leveraged credit bets, knowing that their upside is billions in fees and their downside is millions in fees.

It was like having your teenager sell a spin in your Ferrari for a dollar. The more rides he sells, the more money he makes, until he wrecks your Ferrari.

Then, as now, archaelogists and writers ventured where others feared to tread.

People who live in fear tend to do a powerful lot of nothing.