Quotes About Risk

When thinking about risk, rather than making things unnecessarily complicated, there are really two main things you should want to know about an investment strategy: 1. What is the risk of losing money following that strategy over the long term? 2. What is the risk that your chosen strategy will perform worse than alternative strategies over the long term?

You have to let go of something. And usually it's the thing that you're doing well at that moment. It's a courageous step into the unknown.

What we have to remember is that not everything is under our control. If people are free in any meaningful sense of the word, that means they are at liberty to foul up their lives as much as make something grand of them. That's a gamble we all take. That's the risk of liberty. Nobody wants others to screw up their lives, but each must be free to do so for themselves.

Nothing will be sadder than to come to the end of life and realize what we could have become if we had just lived with an at-possibility mind-set instead of an at-risk mentality.

Programmers and software engineers who dive into code without writing a spec tend to think they're cool gunslingers, shooting from the hip. They're not. They are terribly unproductive. They write bad code and produce shoddy software, and they threaten their projects by taking giant risks which are completely uncalled for.

I feel the way bank robbers must feel before they go out on that last job that ends up getting them all killed. That is to say, optimistic.

Kissing girls is easy, like breaking windows.

We are terrible for each other, and, yes, we are a disaster. But tell me your heart doesn't race for a hurricane or a burning building. I'd rather die terrified than live forever.

The light at the end of the tunnel is another train heading straight for you.

Relationship games always carry a risk," he managed lightly. "D/s can be dangerous, because it explores the most primitive sides of ourselves. Those involved must have a high degree of trust and a very, very healthy devotion o one another. Like religion, it can be a spiritually enlightening experience, or it can be an expression of psychosis. And somewhere in between, it can be tremendously fun.

If you take five milligrams of melatonin—which is often a standard dose that's sold over the counter in the U.S.—Roxanne said you risk "blowing out your melatonin receptors," which would make it harder to sleep without them.

If we can figure out at the age of five which kids are going to be addicts and which ones aren't, that tells us something fundamental about drug addiction. "Their relative maladjustment," the study found, "precedes the initiation of drug use." Indeed, "Problem drug use is a symptom, not a cause, of personal and social maladjustment.

Life begins at the edge of your comfort zone.

The best experiences in life that I had, when I thought back on it, came from times when I had been in the mountains climbing…climbing and doing something really kind of difficult and dangerous—but within the scope of what I could do.

the writer Neale Donald Walsch wrote: "Life begins at the edge of your comfort zone.

Die Gefahr[...] ist die poetische Ballfrisur der Liebe, und die hat sie auch höchst nöthig, denn in der Schlafhaub'n der Alltäglichkeit nimmt sich diese Himmelstochter miserabel aus.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life

Niemand weiß eine Medaille am Rand anzufassen

Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.

One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going.

I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.

There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.

Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success

Live dangerously and you live right.