Quotes About Risk

I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.

The general rule is that entrepreneurs need the fear of their brand's demise to make it magic. It is too safe to do it as a corporate subsidiary.

We have to take risks in British television. It has to stop playing to the lowest common denominator and patronising people.

Money can make or break you. It just depends on what you make it to be.

The whole market mechanism and its evolution is something that, I'm kind of of the Buffett School. You know, if I see a derivative, I run the other way.

Derivatives are a huge, complex issue.

If there were not derivatives, there would be no bank loans at all today, because people want to get fixed-rate 30-year loans, but banks don't want to keep 30-year loans on their books.

Every sport has dangers, and it's a risk we all take, but that's why people need to give us the credit we deserve.

I follow my desires, and I'm prepared to take the consequences.

I didn't want a desk job; I knew I'd get bored.

In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.

I've always covered up in the sun and it seemed so ridiculous that I developed cancer despite taking precautions.

When you put a great amount of energy and hope in a big project, you can be destroyed if you don't do it.

If you want your company to succeed, you have to have the confidence in your business to take a bet on its future - to risk destroying a mediocre business model for the chance to have a strong one.

Limiting the destructive risk-taking by large financial firms and banks which are 'too big to fail' is needed.

The future of humanity in space will be determined by the answer to a key question: What will happen first, the first human born in space or the first combat fatality in space?

My chances of developing breast cancer have dropped from 87 percent to under 5 percent. I can tell my children that they don't need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer.

The Devil is fun.

When you've got money to spend, it's very easy to buy someone worth £50m rather than say, 'I'm going to play this 20-year-old English player.' It's easier to buy someone when you have the money to do it. But at the same time, if you give somebody an opportunity, you never know. You can only roll the dice and see how they perform.

You always kind of feel like you're rolling the dice as an actor.

Believe me, you're shooting dice every time you do a part.

What I find really attractive is something that's going to be a little dangerous. Something that might get me into trouble; you know, you turn up in London and you've just rewritten Dickens. And, of course, then you think, 'What have I done?'

I'm not afraid of anything. I'm not afraid to die, if I have to.

Was there any danger I could have gone down a different path were it not for boxing? Of course.