Quotes About Risk

There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.

As an industry, we have a responsibility to manage risk in a way that is prudent.

I did theatre when it was not considered prudent for film actors to be seen on stage.

I'm attracted to things that scare me, like 'Psycho,' my favorite Hitchcock movie.

I'm amazed people talk about my helmet - saying it makes me feel psychologically better. I would love to play without it, but I'm not allowed to by the doctor. As long as I'm told by the doctor I'm running too much risk to play without it, I'll play with it. There's no other way for me.

I like blackjack. I like the psychology of poker.

One thing on psychology, which we've always known, is that every investor says they're long-term - and they are until the market takes a hit.

We historians are increasingly using experimental psychology to understand the way we act. It is becoming very clear that our ability to evaluate risk is hedged by all sorts of cognitive biases. It's a miracle that we get anything right.

What most entrepreneurs don't understand is that it isn't the economy that bursts a bubble, but investor psychology.

We live in a world at constant risk of public health emergencies. In our increasingly interconnected world, public health emergencies can affect anyone, anywhere.

We need to increase cybersecurity awareness in both the private and public sector by 10,000 percent.

Publish and be dammed.

If you're going to publish a book, you probably are going to make a fool of yourself.

Better that you should take the chance of trying something that is close to your heart, you think is what you want to write, and if they do not publish it, put it in your drawer. But maybe another day will come and you will find a place to put that.

Print-on-demand and electronic self-publishing options have made it easy for anyone to set up a business as a publisher whether they know what they're doing or not.

When a publisher spends an inordinate amount on an acquisition, it will do everything in its power to make that project a market success.

For a book publisher, there is hardly a more dangerous category than that of celebrity autobiography. Forget who it's by, most books of this kind not only fail but fail big, since they are invariably expensive.

Publishers are very risk-averse, so they lean towards licenses and sequels. But the fact is that even those are not guaranteed hits. So, if 'playing it safe' does not guarantee hits, they might as well leave it up to the really creative, risk-taking people, because they couldn't do any worse.

Kickstarter eliminates the risk that publishers and booksellers face. They have limited resources and limited shelf space, and Kickstarter is proof to them that something is going to work.

It's a crapshoot, publishing.

Self-publishing provides more freedom and control, but it also provides more risk. Publishing provides more credibility and promotion, but your vision can also get lost in the bureaucratic machinery of the business. It's a tough decision to make.

The age of 18 seemed the right time to try something different in my life. Moving to the U.K. was a risk, and I was never confident that I could ever make a full-time living being a musician, but I had to try. Initially, I worked as a jazz musician in pubs or with bands.

I prefer to do movies, just for the simple fact that in TV, there's not much of a guarantee. They can pull the plug on you.

I get demoralized by organizations that start off with a mission and pull back when they find it's risky.