Quotes About Risk

I'll do anything for $50. People are always trying to get me to do dumb things. The possibilities are endless.

There's always a possibility that you can have a catastrophic failure, of course. This could happen on any flight.

When I came into politics I always thought there was a possibility I would be killed.

As an entrepreneur, I knew that if my company failed, I could always try again. So I often felt that the only real risk of true financial ruin came from the possibility of a serious illness that either exceeded my insurance plans lifetime limits, or was not covered due to rescission.

Capitalism, after all, is no fun when real failure becomes a possibility.

When you're doing something that you think - that you know - is a breakthrough, you cannot obsess about the possibility of failure. That is just not a great place to go.

The IRGC's tentacles are well hidden in the Iranian economy, making the risk of becoming entangled with the organization an impossible-to-quantify possibility.

I believe that the constant possibility of failure or possibility of decision-making feeds your creativity.

When you leave home, then you leave with the possibility of not returning.

Anyone who would let Gary Cooper and the entire cast go charging on horseback without first finding out what kind of footing the horses had is nuts and cannot possibly direct a motion picture.

I'm always drawn to the thing I think I can't possibly do, because I tend to be better when I think I can't possibly do something than I am when I'm pretty sure I can do something.

Protect your hand when you're confident you're in the lead. Don't be greedy and try to milk your opponent for a few more chips when the pot is already large.

When I play poker, I don't like losing the pot.

Look, for some players, pot odds should guide your decision making.

Abstracted hatred is incredibly potent. There's never the risk of having it challenged by the reality of living human beings.

Boredom and sexual desire are a potent and explosive combination, and people will certainly risk their lives to exit a grey and boring life.

Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk.

We know that childhood and adolescence are the most crucial times for environmental stimuli to affect breast cancer risk, but changes made during adulthood and even after diagnosis still have the potential to create positive changes in the body.

It's very real, the narrow line between a night danced away and the potential of death around the corner.

I've chosen opportunities where I might fail rather than live in the shadow of my own potential.

If you want to talk about potential risk, more guys get injured on a field goal than extra point.

For me, the risks in terms of opening that brewpub were fairly high. I put my house up as collateral, I invested the liquid money I had and two years of my time to get it over, but that's really not much of a risk for what the potential reward was if it worked.

I try to stop and take a 10-second break and ask myself before I do something: One, is this going to improve my life for my children, or two, will there be a potential for something to go wrong here?

I can play many roles, a guy who takes on a challenge on very short notice with potentially damaging results, if I make the wrong move... I shoot for the stars. If I get the moon, I'm OK with that.