Quotes About Risk

If the world does well, gold will be fine. If the world doesn't do well, gold will also do fine... but a lot of other things could collapse.

When you're shooting a feature that costs $200,000 a day with a crew of 250, you don't want accidents; you want to know exactly what's going to happen. But with a documentary, you don't, so you have to be sensitive to accidents because that is where the gold is.

I'm not looking to double my money with one golden opportunity.

I'm surprised Golden Boy took the risk of taking on the UFC.

I got caught up with gambling at the golf course, the backroom card games at the casinos with buddies there, and eventually betting on sporting events. I think it became a situation where I got consumed by it and loved every minute of it.

The world has always gone forward when people have dared to have crazy ideas.

My coach at UConn, Geno Auriemma, taught me to take more risks, because in basketball, if you overthink things, the moment will pass you by. That's good advice for life off the court, too.

When 'Dum Maro Dum' came my way, I took it up without thinking that I was crossing any boundary. It was a good film, and I wanted to do it.

There's a thing in comedy where you take one step into a bad idea, but if you take 10, then it becomes a good idea again.

During my 20s, I truly said 'yes' to everything, whether it was a good idea or not.

In the business world, bad news is usually good news - for somebody else.

Good parts should always scare you a little bit, and good parts... you might not get advice to do them.

Going back because it's what I did and I was sort of all right at it is not a good reason to race the TT.

You do have to challenge yourself. I think scared is a good thing.

Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing.

We have co-opted seed funds. You know, Y Combinator, that was completely our money. We have secret handshakes with a whole bunch of people. Very dangerous, because word gets out that so-and-so's money is Sequoia's money, that would not be a good thing.

I think doing things that scare you a little is a good thing. A little bit of fear is never a bad thing. A healthy amount of fear makes everything taste better.

I wake up every day, and the family fortune is on the line, and that's a good thing.

I want to do things that scare me, and also have a good time.

Faith is stepping out into the unknown with nothing to guide us but a hand just beyond our grasp.

If the truth is worth telling, it is worth making a fool of yourself to tell.

I had as well be killed running as die standing

and yet the courage that could risk betrayal and the bravery which was ready to encounter death, if need be, in pursuit of freedom, were essential features in the undertaking.

The FDA just ordered them off the market. The glaze is supposed to be poison—provided you drink at least forty cups of tea out of one of them every day of your life for twenty years.