Quotes About Risk

I've heard it said that the most dangerous animal on the planet is the adolescent male.

There's no question that if we stay on planet Earth and never leave, that eventually we'll be wiped out.

The truth is, every single rocket launch off of planet Earth is risky.

If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom.

When I climb a building, I've been there already, and carefully planned how to start the climb as well as how to do it.

I like - there's a better word for it, but I like the danger that a comic brings to a role. It has a feeling, even though everything's scripted and everything's planned what you're going to do. When I see Will Ferrell or Sacha Baron Cohen, there's a feeling that anything could happen.

Since there is always a risk that an innovation will fail, you must be able to pivot quickly when an idea doesn't perform as planned.

Adventure is just bad planning.

For sure people around me, they always say don't do ovals, we are not happy to see you doing that. I'm not saying I'm scared, I'm not scared to do ovals. But I never thought about it. I was not really planning to go to do Formula Indy.

Planning cities is a necessary but risky business.

I'm not planning to jump off a bridge with no bungee.

I've got a lot of crazy plans.

In any aircraft you fly, you always think about what can go wrong, and you plan for it in advance. You always have back-up plans.

If you don't have a tonne of optimism, you're not going to make it... you won't be able to evangelise to everyone else. On the other hand, if you aren't constantly paranoid about what can go wrong and put plans in place, then you're going to get bitten at some point.

Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.

These nuclear plants are more dangerous than people realize.

If we get in an accident that's strong enough to break bones, it's going to break bones. What makes me a little bit higher risk is that if I break my right ankle again, I've got a bunch of screws and plates in there, and that would not be good.

When I took over 'New Mutants,' writing and drawing, and I figure this is a big deal, I'm 23, 22 at that time, and I am nervous because I've had nothing but success. And now they're giving me the entire platform to create. And I figure, if I fall flat on my face here, it's going to hurt. It's going to set me back.

A lot of people are afraid to use their platforms because they don't want to lose anything they have - and that's OK. We don't all have to be activists, but I choose to do it because, really, what's the worst that could happen?

I've always loved to play games, and face it: investing is one big game. You need to be decisive, open-minded, flexible and competitive.

I wouldn't let my children play football.

Now that I know the dangers? Yes, I still would do it again. Why? 'Cause look at me. Look at my family. They're able to eat, they're able to have food and shelter over their head. Would I play football again? Yes.

If you play NFL football, you play football, these are the consequences. There's choices and consequences in life for everything. There's consequences if you play football.

I play football, that's what I do, and people can bet on me if they want to, and if they don't, then their loss. Then they don't get a share of the wealth.