Quotes About Risk

Is this complicated, risky [banking] system the best we can have?

To die for an idea is to place a pretty high price on conjecture.

To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture.

To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.

This explains the importance of staying just outside your comfort zone: you need to continually push to keep the body's compensatory changes coming, but if you push too far outside your comfort zone, you risk injuring yourself and actually setting yourself back.

Anyone who says they're not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both.

The farther you go...the harder it is to return. The world has many edges and it's easy to fall off.

The farther you go, however, the harder it is to return. The world has many edges, and it's easy to fall off.

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore

On ne découvre pas de terre nouvelle sans consentir à perdre de vue, d'abord et longtemps, tout rivage. (One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.)

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

I was on the point of cutting the cord that suspended me between heaven and earth... and measured with my eye the vast space that separated me from the rest of the human race... I felt myself precipitated with a velocity that was checked by the sudden unfolding of my parachute.

No me gusta que demos imagen de gente que pierde, que no sabe en que juego se metió.

Tú enrúmbate y después derrúmbate

great things begin at the end of the comfort zone. It is all about exploring the bleeding edge in your own time or with someone who will not judge you for it being beyond your comfort zone

Sometimes in this life, only one or two opportunities are put before us and we must seize them no matter the risk.

If there is no snake at your feet, do not lift rocks at the side of the road.

Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Man cannot discover new oceans (high sea) unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.'

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

If Kartr had an instant picture of what it meant to dangle so precariously over the edge of a sheer drop he did not betray himself.