Quotes About Risk

The future is a matter of contempt for those with courage. - Napoleon Bonaparte.

I briefly contemplated how difficult it would be to safely remove my hand.

A part of me tried to fabricate reasons in my mind why it was too dangerous, or why it couldn't be possible. But I knew the truth — there was a part of me that was just afraid of change. And another part that was afraid of losing what made me special. I'd risked my life for that attunement. Was it really fair for others to get them for free? Perhaps even any attunement of their choice? But that was an inherently selfish line of thinking.

Don't worry. I'm always careful. What could possibly go wrong?" Chapter XVIII – Everything That Could Possibly Go Wrong

Business success contains the seeds of its own destruction.

Hedging is expensive and dilutes commitment.

Business success contains the seeds of its destruction.

if you're wrong, you will die. But most companies don't die because they are wrong; most die because they don't commit themselves. They fritter away their valuable resources while attempting to make a decision. The greatest danger is in Standing still

Business success contains the seeds of its own destruction. The more Successful you are, the more people want a chunk of your business and then another chunk and then another until there is nothing

Strange, though; because he is afraid of everything, nothing is harder than anything else. Taking a trip around the world is no more terrifying than buying a stick of gum. The daily dose of courage.

It is a brave and stupid thing, a beautiful thing, to waste one's life for love.

Unfortunately, there are so many people who live their whole life in a place that is safe and protected and simple and they don't really have that strength inside to fly.

Friendship, I learned, provided a buffer in the interplay of emotions, a distance that made the risk of intimacy bearable, a space that allowed the other person to remain safely another person.

A very basic thing to know about your money is that, over the really long run, people who buy equities—stocks—will almost surely make a lot more money (if they're at all sensible in how they do it) than people who make "safer" investments.

If a train is coming at you, closing your eyes won't save you ... but if you look right at it, you at least have a chance to jump.

A hedge fund is a private partnership that has a start and an end, and involves a general partner and several limited partners, each of whom brings something to the partnership. At the start, the general partner brings all the experience and limit partners bring all the money. At the end, the general partner leaves with all the money and the limited partners leave with all the experience.

A coward,' he declared with dignity, when he'd stopped coughing and had got his breath back, 'dies a hundred times. A brave man dies but once. But Dame Fortune favours the brave and holds the coward in contempt.' — Dandelion

La tua spedizione ha un fine personale e privato, anzi è il carattere di questo fine a richiedere che tu lo realizzi da solo, personalmente. Il rischio, la minaccia, la fatica, la lotta con la disperazione devono gravare solo ed esclusivamente su di te. Perché fanno parte della penitenza e del riscatto della colpa che stai perseguendo. Una sorta di battesimo del fuoco direi. Passerai attraverso il fuoco, che brucia ma al tempo stesso purifica.

Il vigliacco muore cento volte. L'uomo coraggioso una volta sola.

El cobarde muere cien veces. El hombre valiente muere sólo una vez. Pero la Señora Fortuna al atrevido ayuda, al cobarde siempre despreció tiene.

El cobarde muere cien veces. El hombre valiente muere sólo una vez. Pero la Señora Fortuna al atrevido ayuda, al cobarde siempre desprecio tiene.

You would do better not to attract attention, O poet. Your fiancee is here. There could be trouble.' 'Fiancee?' Dandilion blinked nervously. 'Which one do you mean? I have several.

He was very bold and very imprudent. He was famous for the first and known for the second.

Risikos, Bedrohung, Mühe, der Kampf mit dem Zweifel müssen auf dir lasten und ausschließlich auf dir. Denn sie sind ja ein Teil der Buße, der Erlösung von Schuld, die du erlangen willst. So eine Art Feuertaufe.