Quotes About Risk

Prior to September 11, we thought the world beyond our shores was one world of risk and the world in our continent was another world of risk.

Prior to Box, I was a professional wiffleball player and then a professional poker player.

In subsidized theater, you are encouraged to take risks. It's about being imaginative and artistic. That's the priority. It might not be a success, but let's try.

I shopped at Harrods and Louis Vuitton, as they were top on my priority list. And that's when a friendly shopkeeper told me that I could get mugged as my luxury bags were screaming for attention. And he gave me garbage bags to cover them. So here I was walking around in London with garbage bags in my hand.

The only time you can be completely free from risk is when you're in prison.

I've ended up in prison a number of times, once in Cambodia, once in Cuba - for hours rather than days.

Maybe I won't stay out of prison. Who knows?

I've made enough jokes about Iran's leadership that I'm sure if I showed up that I would get a nice escort - to the main prison - and then I could do a show there.

Prison officers face enormous pressure. The levels of violence inside our prisons are too high.

Prisons and jails, I tend to feel that you're actually safer as a journalist than you might think, certainly more than it appears.

Privacy and encryption work, but it's too easy to make a mistake that exposes you.

Security incidents have gone up 5-10 times during the pandemic, so there is an increased need for security operations risk management, identity and access management, data privacy and compliance.

Increasing cyber-physical system complexity brings security challenges as well as privacy challenges.

I went to a failing school, and by the grace of God, my mother was able to put me into private school, and had she not, I would probably be in a gang or dead right now, because that was the road I was going down.

In China, where you can be arrested and imprisoned for your faith, getting together with other Christians is a lifeline and you'll risk anything for the privilege. No one attends church in China casually, or for a social advantage - quite the opposite.

For the private sector to flourish, special privilege must give way to equal opportunity and equal risk for all.

I can scare myself like a pro.

Pro wrestling is entertainment, but people get hurt all of the time.

The probability of failure doesn't matter to me.

Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties.

We don't know the probabilities of future events. Still, you have to take action, and so you do it on gut feeling. That's the world we live in.

Sometimes what's recommended to the people is something different than what's recommended to the leaders, because I have been recommended to use hydroxychloroquine as a prophylaxis and the probability of this harming you is very low.

When I was in high school, I had a gambling problem.

One can't be a successful investor without a healthy dose of confidence. To commit your own and others' hard-earned capital requires conviction, and conviction requires confidence. But as with fine brandy or coffee ice cream, too much of a good thing can be problematic.