Quotes About Risk

Investors have very short memories.

One who sits between two chairs may easily fall down.

You don't want too much fear in a market, because people will be blinded to some very good buying opportunities. You don't want too much complacency because people will be blinded to some risk.

One side of the American psyche wants smaller government, lower taxes, and more choices for individuals, even if those choices increase risk. The other wants a strong social safety net to protect the weakest among us, even if it costs more to minimize risk.

I guess I knowed I was taking my life in my hands when I got in that car, 'cause it was a cold day in January, but I was sweatin like a hog in August.

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read. —Sir Winston Churchill Statesman 1874–1965

A small profit it better than a big loss

The whole game was about confidence, as it always was. Everything was fine—until it wasn't.

We felt it was really a dangerous world where you got punished for doing nothing.

The Myth of Measurement For some people, stepping out on the line is worth the risk only if success can be seen, touched, felt, and, most of all, counted. But trying to take satisfaction in life from the numbers you ring up is ultimately no more successful than making survival your goal. Meaning cannot be measured. Yet we live immersed in a world of measurement so pervasive that even many of our religious institutions measure success, significantly, by market share.

In the effort to protect yourself, you risk numbing yourself to the world in which you are embedded.

We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result. (Quoting Churchill)

I've heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance?

Anger is only one letter short of danger.

What if instead of telling officers they have a right to go home safe, police training focused on reminding officers that members of the public have a right to go home safe? What if we reminded officers that they are voluntarily taking a risky job, and that if someone dies because of a mistake, it's better that it be a police officer who is trained and paid to take risks than a member of the public?

Caesar's ghost on the eve of the Battle of Philippi. We ignore them at our peril; we listen to them at the risk of our sanity. A French poet said, by the end of life, we all contain libraries and graveyards. It seemed to have happened to me already, my familiarity with both. I knew I had to get help with this now,

If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

You must accept that you might fail then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

You must accept that you might fail then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, and you don't branch out, you don't try-you don't take the risk.

The drive to be successful and the fear of failure are, like the head and tail of a coin, inseparably linked.

when you declare yourself an unwilling victim of a known risk, you have postured yourself as a poor loser in a game you chose to play.

An individual who drinks himself into a state of stuporous sickness runs the risk of succumbing to accidental death.