Quotes About Risk

If you don't have a voice that forces you back to basics, you're a dangerous person. Or, to put it another way, you're at risk, and the people with you are at risk.

Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.

No one can forecast the economy with certainty.

I just think when you have success playing a certain way and formation, you are asking for more problems by changing it.

In a lot of formats, you can be really experimental and see what would happen.

As a former track cyclist I know only too well the risk of crashing. You don't dwell on it when you are competing but there are lots of moments when you are close to serious accidents.

It's important for the Fed, hard as it is, to attempt to detect asset bubbles while they're forming.

Experimental or independent cinema is so exciting because it is about risk-taking, as there is no formula.

Things can change very quickly in Formula 1.

I don't know how this industry works. There is no formula.

You can do a formula film and walk the conventional path, but it may not work at all.

Cart is not as sanitised as formula one. You just get in the car and get on with it. And it is more fun.

I went for a walk in the Arctic Circle without map or compass. Fortunately, I was only lost for hours, not days.

I'm somebody who takes risks, for better or worse. Fortunately, most of them have been for the better!

Fortune favors the brave.

I divide the entire set of Fortune Global 2000 firms into two categories: those that know they've been compromised and those that don't yet know.

Drama school is really a forum for making a fool of yourself.

I'm scared of any fighter I've ever fought because they are some dangerous people to be dealing with.

For me, there is always a certain level of recklessness that, I think, gives you a certain foundation, that makes you more interesting as a person.

I tell founders all the time, 99.9 percent chance of failure.

I think that when Evel Knievel crashed over the fountain at Caesar's, it kind of gave you a credibility and then anticipation for everything he did.

I think a series risks straying into self-parody if you get into a fourth series... sometimes even if you get into a third, because the audience knows how it's going to go.

We started Fox when everyone said it couldn't be done.

Fragile egos are put on the line every day.