Quotes About Risk

Wall Street's shenanigans have convinced a large portion of America that the economic game is rigged. Yet capitalism depends on trust. Without trust, people avoid even sensible economic risks. They also begin trading in gray markets and black markets. They think that if the big guys cheat in big ways, they may as well begin cheating in small ways. And when they think the game is rigged, they're easy prey for political demagogues with fast tongues and dumb ideas. Wall

Socialism for the rich means the oligarchy is not held accountable. Harsh capitalism for the many means most Americans are at risk for events over which they have no control—such as the closing of factories across the Midwest or a Wall Street financial crisis—and have no safety nets to catch them if they fall.

Wall Street is a casino in which high-stakes wagers are placed within a limited number of betting houses that keep a percentage of the wins for themselves and fob off losses on others, including taxpayers.

Romney is right: free enterprise is on trial. But he's wrong about the question at issue in that trial. It's not whether America will continue to reward risk taking. It's whether an economic system can survive when those at the top get giant rewards no matter how badly they screw up while the rest of us get screwed no matter how hard we work.

Indentured servitude is banned, but what about students seeking to sell shares of their future earnings in exchange for money up front to pay for their college tuitions?

The decision as to whether to risk one's actual life or to surrender the ideal self-conception is a decision about who one is." from The structure of desire and recognition

You don't want to get to the end of life's journey and discover you never left the interstate.

One day you just say "To heck with it," and you go looking for trouble, and you find happiness.

Dare to turn life on its end, and you may find that topsy-turvy is a truer perspective than turvy-topsy.

The greater the success, the closer it verges on failure.

Are there not, dear Michal, Two points in the adventure of the diver, One, when a beggar he prepares to plunge; One, when a prince he rises with his pearl? Festus, I plunge.

Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things.The honest thief, the tender murderer,The superstitious atheist, demirepThat loves and saves her soul in new French books.

He ventured neck or nothing—heaven's successFound, or earth's failure.

Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.

It is better to love and lose then never love -

Many things happen between the cup and the lip.

Why don´t you fix bad code when you see it? Your first reaction upon seeing a messy function is ´This is a mess, it needs to be cleaned' . Your second reaction is ´I'm not touching it!´. Beacuse you know that if you touch it you risk breaking it; and if you break it; it becomes yours

Duplication is the primary enemy of a well-designed system. It represents additional work, additional risk, and additional unnecessary complexity.

Without tests every change is a possible bug. No

The primary cost of maintenance is in spelunking and risk. Spelunking is the cost of digging through the existing software, trying to determine the best place and the best strategy to add a new feature or to repair a defect.

True, trust necessarily carries with it uncertainties, but we must force ourselves to think about these uncertainties as possibilities and opportunities, not as liabilities.

Trust is not bound up with knowledge so much as it is with freedom, the openness to the unknown.

All trust involves vulnerability and risk, and nothing would count as trust if there were no possibility of betrayal.

The Bombing Two Dauntlesses were launched with 12 percent less than maximum fuel, which would have critical impact later in the morning.