Quotes About Risk

gambling creates risk while investing/speculating assumes and manages risk that already exists.

Acknowledging that losses are part of business is one thing; taking and accepting those losses in the markets is something else entirely.

You must pick the loss side first. Why? Otherwise, after you enter the market everything you look at and hear will be skewed in favor of your position.

After you know where you want to get out of the market, then you can ascertain whether and where you are comfortable getting into the market. In contrast to what most people do, your entry point should be a function of the exit point.

Once you specify what price or under what circumstances you would no longer want the position, and specify how much money you are willing to lose, then, and only then, can you start thinking about where to enter the market.

A cigarette is like a hamster, harmless until you stick it in your mouth and light it on fire.

Do not worry about failure, I would tell them. Do not worry about making mistakes in life. It is good to lose money, to go broke at least once, and preferably twice. But if you are going to do it, do it early in your career. It is better to go bust when you are talking about $20,000 than when you are talking about $20 million. Do it early, and it is not the end of the world.

All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.

Our budget works to reduce and eliminate the risk of attacks at our ports, rails, in the skies, our food supply and roads by allowing for increases in many of the programs and agencies to help protect these important areas of commerce and travel.

Before all else, each of us must take a fundamental risk to be true to ourselves.

We are the people our parents warned us about.

I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead.

One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it.

As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing.

Failure is a reality; we all fail at times, and it's painful when we do. But it's better to fail while striving for something wonderful, challenging, adventurous, and uncertain than to say, " I don't want to try because I may not succeed completely.

Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

it was said those who supped with the devil should have a long spoon.

We threw ourselves at that wild river every day and most days it tossed us all harmlessly skyward like well-loved children. After a while that does something to you.

Viver é muito perigoso, mesmo.

Melhor um pássaro voando do que dois na mão!... Eis a versão do provérbio, para uso dos fortes, dos capazes de ideal... - É a versão dos otários, também.

Uno vuol passare un fiume a nuoto, e lo passa; ma tocca l'altra sponda in un punto assai più in basso, ben diverso da quello che in un primo tempo aveva pensato. Vivere non è forse molto pericoloso?

Então eu acho que se deve experimentar, é uma burrice não experimentar. Quem não usa nada, nem secretamente, é um perigoso louco que possivelmente mataria alguém.

The feeding of babies takes place in what I call a "risk culture" marked by the constant production of scientific information about risks, especially health risks, and a pervasive neoliberal sentiment that every individual has a personal responsibility to make sense of this information, prevent health problems, and act as a good citizen.

A week before the Daimler opinion was handed down, in January 2014, [Sonia] Sotomayor told an audience of more than a thousand that to bolster her courage, she often thought about the worst thing that could happen when she undertook a challenging endeavor. She would conclude: 'You know something...so what?