Quotes About Risk

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.

Your chances of winnin' the lottery get a lot better if you buy a ticket.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

The film studios learned to our dismay but to their pleasure that if they spent $200 million making a film they could make half a billion on it. So they were not interested anymore in quality films.... They can't afford to be that risky at those prices. Consequently you're getting a lot of remakes, sequels, dopey comedies full of toilet jokes.

I think crime pays. The hours are good, you meet a lot of interesting people, you travel a lot.

Having sex is like playing bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

If you're not failing now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.

If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

Courage is being afraid and going ahead and trying anyway. One can still be afraid and still be courageous.

This was my first lesson about gambling: if you see somebody winning all the time, he isn't gambling, he's cheating.

I'd be glad to go out on a limb with those Who want nothing beyond what the wind bestows, Were I not bound to roots, dug in deep to bear Never being done grasping for light and air

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Hesitation becomes doubt. Doubt turns into fear. Fear leads to inaction. By then, you're out of the game.

Poison often had no taste at all, so no matter how finely honed your palate, your taste buds weren't going to save your life.

Those less affluent, less educated, and less skillful fear being thrown into the global competition as their chance of winning are minute and the price of failure unbearable. They tend to prefer "a bird in hand than two in the bush.

You really need to focus on, are you willing to back it up with litigation, because you cannot monetize through licensing without being willing to incur the risk of litigation," Mr. Chaikovsky explained. "If you are not willing to put up a fight, everyone else knows that therefore you cannot monetize your patent."

Vivre, c'est courir des risques tous les jours, Kurt. - Ça dépend dans quel sens on court. (p.47)

The mistake-riddled life is much richer, more interesting and more stimulating than the life that has never risked or taken a stand on anything.

Go tap dance in a mine field Parker! - J. Jonah Jameson - By David Michelinie

The problem," observed a tall Indian man sitting next to Serena, "is that we get stuck in our comfort zone, even when it isn't very comfortable.