Quotes About Risk

How about we all stop paying our mortgages! It's a moral hazard.

Every form of payment has some risk associated with it.

Sequestration will make it extremely challenging - and in many cases impossible - for employees to meet their mortgage payments, pay their healthcare expenses, plan for retirement, or help their children attend college. To be blunt, these families are at risk.

Everyone pays lip service to this whole idea of doing more new plays, and nobody ever does it.

When the image that I built around the first album was crumbling, it was scary: the risk pays off, but the resonances of that risk are not always easy to deal with.

When there's a death consequence, when you are doing things that if you mess up you die, I like the way it causes my senses to peak. I can see more clearly. You can think much faster. You hear at a different level.

I ain't trying to run away from no danger. If it's supposed to be dangerous for me, then I'm going to go and take a peek. I want to go and look and see what's so dangerous about it.

My belief about acting in one foot on a banana peel and the other one in the grave.

There's always a little fear anytime you're doing something crazy because at any moment you can break a leg, land on your neck, or peel off the bar. Over the years, we've fallen so many times that we've kind of learned how to fall safely. Still, there is always a risk.

If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers.

When you step up and take a penalty, it's 50/50 - but you've got to back yourself.

I think when I was younger, I knew I was either going to get a penalty or score a goal. It was a gamble. But it benefited me.

I can tell you that when you're counting every penny, knowing that you are a single bad decision away from bankruptcy, you inevitably lose focus on what really matters for your business.

Some people play the lottery all their life and never win a penny. Others play once and hit the jackpot and that's how it felt with 'Mary's Boy Child.'

I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding after having kids, like Mary King, but people say that you lose your nerve after you have kids. It's the risk.

When people say 'that's risky,' or when the odds are not in my favor, I'm more motivated than ever.

Many people assume the diseases that kill us are pre-programmed into our genes. High blood pressure by 55, heart attacks at 60, maybe cancer at 70, and so on... But for most of the leading causes of death, our genes usually account for only 10-20 per cent of risk.

Those extreme-sports kids today are good, but they have it easy. Try falling off of a motorcycle going 70 or 80 miles per hour on asphalt. Believe me, nothing equals it.

Downhillers are going over 110 miles per hour. But no matter what, you can't hit the fence at 100 miles per hour.

I don't like to get too complacent. I like to give myself five panic attacks per project.

I have made a decision that in future, I will only take on movies that have a better than 75 per cent chance of being made, and that's not easy.

It's important to understand how people perceive risk, and how that translates into investment behavior.

We tend to perceive Hollywood as an industry that is trying to mitigate risk more and more.

The risk to be perceived defines the duty to be obeyed.