Quotes About Risk

Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin. Bankruptcies and losses concentrate the mind on prudent behavior.

The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation is ever dangerous.

The essence of all religion is to be willing to risk your life for a belief - not for survival.

In the absence of fear there is little faith.

You can't fulfill your calling inside your comfort zone.

You have to risk falling to be able to fly.

A good portfolio is more than a long list of good stocks and bonds. It is a balanced whole, providing the investor with protections and opportunities with respect to a wide range of contingencies.

I don't care very much for miniatures. I don't try to beat my opponents quickly because if they are strong, I think I should respect them. It is too risky to play sharply to beat them in 20 moves.

We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.

You got nothin' to lose but your self-respect.

I'd like to always be romantic in chess. Sadly, this doesn't always work like that.

It is better to break one's heart than to do nothing with it.

Adventure is just a romantic name for trouble. It sounds swell when you write about it, but it's hell when you meet it face to face in a dark and lonely place.

A romantic, I think, picks the rose and is careless with the thorn.

For the taxable investor, indexing means never having to say you're sorry.

I took a chance with my heart and I feel it taking over

Everest has always been a magnet for kooks, publicity seekers, hopeless romantics and others with a shaky hold on reality.

What people speak of as adventure is something nobody in his right mind would seek out, and it becomes romantic only when one is safely at home.

Courtship is exciting and romantic because it thrives on the edge of disaster. It co-exists with the threat that, at any moment, it could fall apart and be lost forever.

A duel, a duel, a duel. Is there anything more exciting, more romantic ... or more utterly moronic?

Lucien?""Yes, Alice?"Her heart was pounding, but she willed herself to muster the courage to reach out to him— unpredictable, dangerous as he was. "I think it's real.

You can't live when you're afraid of daying.

A pilot who signs up to fly through the eye of a storm doesn't complain of the turbulence.

Anything could happen while the dead slept. Which was why some would say a woman shouldn't tread alone through a cemetery at 2:55 on a Tuesday morning in April.