Quotes About Risk

All of us stand on the edge of the future; why venture off the precipice?

He wanted so bad to reach down and kiss her... She'd probably break his jaw.

All life was danger and death was the only way to be safe.

You are not a prince, you are an assassin. You are not the player, you are the game-piece. And when you make your own moves, you set every other strategy awry and endanger every piece on the board!

is deceived about what is offered by the other. What danger do you fear here, Tom?

Acaso reunir el coraje que se requiere para buscar un camino diferente equivalga a tener el valor para arriesgarse a cometer nuevos errores.

The profit from danger only pays you interest in trouble

Prudent men never trusted their luck. But Kennit had long ago decided that a man had to trust his luck in order for it to grow.

They all need the others to say, yes, yes, this is what we should be doing, it's worth the risk. And now that they've decided it, the decision is bigger than all of them. Not one of them could turn back on their own.

Ephron sembrava classificare i pirati insieme alle tempeste; erano solo parte dei rischi che un buon capitano doveva affrontare

When in doubt chicken out.

Failure is usually boring. It is the credible but unrealized threat of failure that is interesting.

Nobody can be entirely protected from the mishaps of life. If anything should happen to Lee—and it would be the end of me if it did—I would still feel that I did the right thing for him. Success or failure, he is fulfilling his destiny. We all have only one life, some are short and some are long. He loves life and wants a little more out of it than to follow convention out of fear of what others may think, or to be just another face in the crowd that follows the herd.

Danger sweetens the brew. Makes it more delicious.

Everything was an adventure, at night, when you were where you shouldn't be, even if it was somwhere you could go perfectly well in daylight, and it was then only ordinary.

America is one of the last places left on earth where every citizen, until the day he or she dies, is exposed to the risk of personal bankruptcy because of illness or disease. It does not matter how industrious we are, how carefully we save and invest, or how moral we are in our personal and family life. We are all just one long hospital stay away from losing everything.

It is a victory for the empire, but not for the kingdom of God, that if you are "too big to fail" it means that your rewards are privatized but your risks are socialized. You can gamble with other people's money, and if you win, you win. But if you lose, we lose. I don't know what economic model that is, but it's not God's economy, so I say, for the love of God … RESIST!

Von Falkenhayn's plan for Verdun, however flawed in execution, was at least possible; he did not intend to gain ground, penetrate the enemy defences or take Verdun. He simply wanted to kill soldiers, to bleed the French Army to death. The Anglo-French Somme plan, even if it had not been disrupted and reduced by the Verdun offensive, was a far more risky business, with little chance of achieving its objectives without new tactical ideas and new equipment.

assessing risk factors and allowing for contingencies. But how often do they?

You know what it's like to ride fire in battle," said Roston. "You've watched good men fall around you for causes they don't believe in. You know, Captain, as I do, that many of the things we're ordered to do are done solely to fulfill the self-satisfying agendas or stroke the egos of men who've never risked blood on a battlefield.

Too many people don't do things for fear of falling. You'll never get good unless you fall. Experiences and new accomplishments are feelings we should never lose.

We know that those who challenge the status quo and do so with both conviction and charisma are at risk of being killed.

Preaching is, after all, an audacious and dangerous act.

As I like to say, take the shot, even if your knees are shaking.