Quotes About Risk

One of three things would occur when she thumbed it, she knew: They would lift off, the ship would blow up, or nothing at all would happen.

Sometimes you have to be satisfied just to know that cobra venom is deadly. It's not always efficacious to study the snake face to face. You have to balance what you might learn against the known chance of getting bit.

we will never be faithful in the biblical sense if we never move from home base.

Thus, in this world of brief scenes from the future, few risks are taken. Those who have seen the future do not need to take risks, and those who have not yet seen the future wait for their visions without taking risks.

They have been trapped by their own inventiveness and audacity. And they must pay with their lives.

The things we do without the fear of failure and the desire for success are the purest acts we'll ever do

Now everything is wonderful and hazardous and nothing's hypothetical.

Quatermain (while climbing down): We are above an abyss such as satan's own, Miss Murray.Pray not to look down. Mina: And you, Sir, should not look up.You have me at a disadvantage and I trust you'll not misuse our situation.

Nite-Owl: Look, I just meant we took enough unnecessary risks retrieving your outfit this morning... Rorschach: Unnecessary? Cowering down here in sludge and pollution, conjuring names on screens, learning nothing: that is unnecessary. Give me smallest finger on man's hand. I'll produce information. Computer unnecessary. This face, all that's necessary... all I need.

Quitting my day job and starting my life as a writer was a tremendous risk. It was a fool's leap, a shot in the dark. But anything of any value in our lives, whether that be a career, a work of art, a relationship, will always start with such a leap. And in order to be able to make it you have to put aside the fear of failing and the desire of succeeding. (...) Because things that we do without lust of result are the purest actions that we shall ever take.

For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.

Ah," he said. "That'll be the little bit of crime that we'll have to embark on." "Crime," Stephanie said with a smile. "Finally.

this is going to be dangerous, I can't make any of you come with me on this one. Questions" Everybody put their hands up "Sorry", Skulduggery said, "I meant 'volunteers'. Thank you

I trust you with my life," Skulduggery said. "Just not necessarily my car.

This long-tail distribution of returns is why it's important to be bold. Big winners pay for so many experiments.

However, as we would know if failed businessmen could sell their biographies as well as the successful ones, blind faith is more commonly a recipe for disaster than for triumph.

Some people might think I could play Russian Roulette safely with a blank bullet. Our armourer took us outside to demonstrate the damage a blank causes at close range.

Russian Roulette should not, under any circumstances, be copied. It is extremely dangerous.

Courage is a decision you make to act in a way that works through your own fear for the greater good as opposed to pure self-interest. Courage means putting at risk your immediate self-interest for what you believe is right.

This is a book for anyone undertaking an adventure and leaving behind a life that has been familiar, comfortable, and predictable.

What went wrong was their rejection of basic bedrock principles of investing—that high returns are leg-shackled to high risks; that you should never put all your eggs in one basket; that you should never invest in something you cannot understand. They failed to see that no one should hand all their money over to anyone simply because they trust him, or because someone they admire trusts him.

Madoff was not inhumanly monstrous. He was monstrously human. He was greedy for money and praise, arrogantly sure of his own capacity to pull it off, smugly dismissive of skeptics—just like anyone who mortgaged the house to invest in tech stocks, or tapped the off-limits college fund to gamble on a new business, or put all the retirement savings into a hedge fund they didn't understand, or cheated a little on the tax return or the expense account or the spouse.

René-Thierry Magon de la Villehuchet,

Testosterone poisoning can be fatal, Braveheart." (Delaney to Rowan)