Quotes About Risk

Forget plan B. To test yourself and grow, you have to operate without a safety net.

Don't be afraid to fail.

You can't be paralyzed by fear of failure or you will never push yourself.

Often it's easier to make a decision when you don't know as much, because then you can't overthink. If you know too much, it can freeze you. The whole deal looks like a minefield.

Sometimes being spontaneous and jumping on an opportunity is the only way you can see art being made.

I've learned it's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing.

You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.

I'm that sensitive, honest guy who likes people, wants to know why, and who puzzles everyone by continually putting himself in harm's way.

The swashbuckling independence of my childhood was not all good, and as a father, I'm puzzling out how to be part of my children's lives rather than shoehorning them into mine. But there's a risk that I'll overcompensate, of course.

By putting this music out, I think I genuinely eliminated 80 percent of the previous jobs I was qualified for.

I hope the BWF (Badminton World Federation) will seriously do something about the Olympic qualifying format or risk getting badminton dropped from the Games.

My childlike qualities sometimes lead me to jump into projects without thinking of the consequences.

Heroic people take risks to themselves to help others. There's nothing heroic about accepting $5 million to go out and run around chasing a ball, although you may show fortitude or those other qualities while you do it.

I am not for buying into financial services firms because I am not sure of the quality.

Well I think comedy everywhere has lost a bit of its bite. In Canada, I can't argue with the quality, but it feels like it's gotten a little safe.

People come to Portland, many of them for the quality of life. They love the physical space here. And yet every year, people climbing the mountain get killed by avalanches.

I think the rise of quantitative econometrics and a highly mathematical approach to risk management was the obverse of a decline in interest in financial history.

Anyone that makes me a quarter of a billion dollars, I like.

Entire populations of market strategists, fund managers, and economists are employed to try and intuit for clients which securities to bet on for the best possible return each year - or quarter.

For a quarter of a century, I've been playing baseball for pay. It has been pretty good pay, most of the time. The work has been hard, but what of it? It's been risky. I've broken both my legs. I've sprained everything I've got between my ankles and my disposition. I've dislocated my joints and fractured my pride.

If you're on a bus and going down a snowy mountain like in Tahoe, and the bus loses its brakes, where do you want to be sitting? Immediately, you all think, 'In the back.' But in the front would be the correct answer. As a quarterback, you want to take control of it.

If you want to run the read option with your starting quarterback that's had two knee surgeries, that's on you.

Even though you can hit a quarterback, it's not always in your best interest.

Will isn't a screaming queen - that's Jack's part. They needed someone to play the part for America. It's just not the same as Britain. To have a gay character as a lead is risky.