Quotes About Risk

I don't have any hidden talents but if you dare me to do something I'll go after it big time.

But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort.

If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time to be considering alternative strategies.

There's a time for daring and there's a time for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for.

Everyone starting a startup for the first time is scared, and everyone feels like a bit of an imposter.

Some families sell their stocks off a little bit at a time to live high, and then - boom - somebody takes them over, and it all goes down the drain.

Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk because they can put you away just as fast for a ten dollar heist as they can for a million dollar job.

If I have to move up in a building, I choose the elevator over the escalator. Because one time I was riding the escalator and I tripped. I fell down the stairs for an hour and a half.

Safety is the most unsafe spiritual path you can take. Safety keeps you numb and dead. People are caught by surprise when it is time to die. They have allowed themselves to live so little.

My most radical shift was leaving Intel and joining Google, a small startup at the time, even though I was pregnant.

It's a roll of the dice when you're a first time director so I prefer to work with people that know more than I do, but that happens less and less as you get older.

If you're cooking for someone important - whether it's your boss or a date - never try a new recipe and a new ingredient at the same time.

We are taking a greater chance of having another crash at a time when the world is less capable of bearing the cost.

For a long time, I kept working at part-time jobs... my goal was to build up enough savings so I wouldn't be kicked out on the streets if I didn't sell enough paintings.

Every time I stepped into the ring, somebody wanted to kill me.

You have to keep on the very edge of something, all the time, or the picture dies.

It doesn't matter whether the Dow is 5000 or 50,000. If you're an entrepreneur, there is no bad time to start a company.

Hitchhiking, intrinsically, is sexual and dangerous. At the same time I never really felt scared. I was scared that nobody would pick me up and that I'd be waiting by the side of the road for a week.

People sometimes pay with their lives for saying aloud what they think. In fact, one can even get killed for giving me information. I am not the only one in danger. I have examples that prove it.

Aquel que no se atreve a agarrar la espina no debería ansiar la rosa.

There's always a chance of death; and it is always well to live with such a chance in view.

But I must not blame them for what was, perhaps, my own fault; for I never made any particular objections to sitting where they pleased; foolishly choosing to risk the consequences, rather than trouble them for my convenience.

There's always a chance of death; and it is always well to live with such a chance in view.' 'Yes

Colui che non osa toccare la spina, non dovrebbe mai desiderare la rosa.