Quotes About Risk

Most people might just as well buy a share of the whole market, which pools all the information, than delude themselves into thinking they know something the market doesn't.

Pool is a fascinating game, but there is always the added factor of the money that really makes it hot.

You can go onto that stage every night, and it's always the equivalent of going onto the topmost diving board, and you don't know if there's any water in the pool.

There have been some clients who have said, 'In order to compete, I'm going to put a pool in and then sell the house.' That's a terrible idea.

As a teen-ager I played cards, shot craps, played pool, went to the track, hung around social clubs. I knew that some card and crap games were run by the mob, and some social clubs were mob social clubs. Even as a kid I knew guys that were here today, gone tomorrow, never seen again, and I knew what had happened.

Our intelligence community was extremely poorly prepared before 9/11.

If pop culture is a pool, it never hurts to dive into the deep end once in a while.

What's missing from pop music is danger.

I took risks, and I did pay a price for it. I was made to answer because a 'Kaun' can't do business like a popcorn entertainer or a romantic film would do.

The pope is a very... passionate man. He likes to get out with the people, and with that comes a large security risk.

It's dangerous to be anybody popular.

I wasn't popular in the home office because I wasn't chicken. I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.

Probably the most important reason we are seeing more cancers than before is because the population is ageing overall. And cancer is an age-related disease.

Port investments entail a lot of money, and having a partner who can share the risk makes a lot of sense. Often, it makes sense to have a local partner.

When you read that UBS did not even view parts of its mortgage portfolio as having market risk, it becomes very obvious that a number of firms were not dotting the i's and crossing the t's when it comes to risk management.

The good thing about a dealer's derivatives portfolio is that it is marked to market.

Children should be taught in school that you should have all kinds of asset classes in your portfolio. They should be taught what those asset classes are, and their advantages and disadvantages.

What I do for a living is so high-risk that I try to make sure my portfolio is as conservative as possible.

Ports are the gaping hole in America's homeland security.

A respiratory pathogen may pose an asymmetric risk to America, given our culture, economy and federalist system.

Our leaders must get to grips with the huge risk that carbon dioxide emissions pose to the economy and the environment. As we know, carbon dioxide is a long-lived gas. It hangs around.

The risk that people pose to wolfdogs is far greater, statistically, than the risk that wolfdogs pose to people. Many are bred in miserable, inhumane conditions, and kept in equally miserable, inhumane conditions.

You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place.

There are many ways to lead a life. It would always be ideal to have a paycheck coming in. But I really love this fly-by-the-seat-of-the-pants approach. It's scary and wonderful at the same time. I feel very open to many possibilities.