Quotes About Risk

When one cannot afford a scandal, a blackmailer is an excellent bargain.

No one ever built a fort because the world was safe.

It was said that pilgrims should not spend too much time planning their journey, for they might learn of so many hazards that they decide not to go

It was said that pilgrims should not spend too much time planning their journey, for they might learn of so many hazards that they would decide not to go.

You can't write novels about people who are timid, risk-averse and passive. Or you can, but they're called literary novels.

A fool was just a fool, but a fool in the White House was the most dangerous person in the world.

man thought he could fly, so he jumped off the top of a ten-story building, and as he fell past the fifth floor, flapping his arms uselessly in the air, he was heard to say: 'So far, so good.

Quien correr se propone a caer se dispone.»

Such talk makes you think of radiation like water in a pool: if it's four feet high you're safe, if it's eight feet high you drown. But in fact radiation levels are much more like speed limits on the highway – thirty miles per hour is safer than eighty, but not as safe as twenty, and the only way to be completely safe is not to get in the car.

A man thought he could fly, so he jumped off the top of a ten-storey building, and as he fell past the fifth floor, flapping his arms uselessly in the air, he was heard to say: So far, so good.

There will always be crashes. They are necessary to remind good and bad investors that risk is real.

A man thought he could fly, so he jumped off the top of a ten-story building, and as he fell past the fifth floor, flapping his arms uselessly in the air, he was heard to say: 'So far, so good.

pilgrims should not spend too much time planning their journey, for they might learn of so many hazards that they would decide not to go.

hombre que se jacta de conocer la voluntad de Dios y está dispuesto a cumplirla a toda costa es el hombre más peligroso del mundo».

So I should protect him?' 'As you would a mad dog that mauls intruders.

So I should protect him? As you would a mad dog that mauls intruders.

Their violence, plus the southward creep of the Sahara Desert, were driving people like Kiah to risk their lives crossing the Mediterranean in inflatable dinghies.

Dimka said angrily: "Why the hell do you risk everything for the sake of an empty protest?" "We live in a brutal tyranny," she said. "We have to do something to keep hope alive." "We

pero es una carta que solo se juega una vez, y prefiero reservarla para una mano ganadora.

sure their gamble

Me alegra prever los problemas, porque así soy capaz de abordarlos. El verdadero peligro son las sorpresas.

Then the Nazis offer them hope, and they ask themselves: What have I got to lose?

if you go through life worrying about all the bad things that can happen, you soon convince yourself that it's best to do nothing at all. Ross Perot

if you go through life worrying about all the bad things that can happen, you soon convince yourself that it's best to do nothing at all.