Quotes About Risk

Charging down the like death in a cowboy duster

I'm not dangerous," I breathed. He brought his face toward mine. "You are to me.

Something's happened. Something involving danger and death and all that other stuff you like.

Invisible ice on the stairs," I told Adrian. "I know I'm not supposed to say this," he said. "But I think I love you more than ever.

Live in the now. Jump right in and worry about the consequences later.

You know--girl stuff.' And by girl stuff, I meant breaking and entering.

If I had learned anything about life and love, it was that they were tenuous things that could end at any moment. Caution was essential-but not at the cost of wasting your life.

I also knew every stolen moment we had together put her at a terrible risk to face the Alchemists' wrath.

The one thing you learn from constantly having your life in danger is that you'd better not waste it. Even Marcus had admitted that in the arcade.

career risk that often leads managers to cling to eroding businesses long after they should have moved on.

Although dynamism and rapid change are all around us, people are not very effective when facing extreme uncertainty—it tends to be paralyzing.

outlier firms also appeared to have fewer big, high-risk all-or-nothing bets, which is also consistent with an options orientation.

limit the downside cultural and business risks.

What happened? A long track record of relatively stable success caused the ambition to hungrily search for new opportunities to atrophy.

With discovery-driven growth (DDG), you invest small amounts of money—money you can afford to lose—to get the information that you need so that you can invest more confidently.

Moving from advantage to advantage is seen as quite normal, not exceptional. Clinging to older advantages is seen as potentially dangerous.

No one is ever safe. So why not live as much as you can?

I will not pretend I wasn't petrified. I was. But mixed in with the awful fear was a glorious feeling of excitement. Most of the really exciting things we do in our lives scare us to death. They wouldn't be exciting if they didn't.

You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that.

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

Most of the really exciting things we do in our lives scare us to death. They wouldn't be exciting if they didn't.

Most of the really exciting things we do in our lives scare us to death. They wouldn't be exciting if they didn't.

gambling's not a sin provided that you always win.

You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that.