Quotes About Risk

There are worse things in life than dragons. Falling in love, for instance.

Only those intrepid souls who are prepared to join Yarnspinner on his perilous journey should read this book. We wish the rest of you a long, safe, unutterably dull and boring life!

Life is too precious to be left to chance

Then King repeated the doctrine of taking calculated risks with concentrated forces that Nimitz had just employed at Coral Sea and Midway. "Don't forget the proposition," the admiral told the reporters, "that the minute you try to be strong everywhere, you have only the men available—it means you will be weak everywhere.

Ten el valor de equivocarte. HEGEL

Cuando cambiamos la ruta convencional por una más atrevida y ensayamos caminos nuevos, la gente rígida y pegada a las normas nos rotulará como "inmaduros" o "inestables", como si "no cambiar de rumbo" fuera sinónimo de inteligencia.

Cuando cambiamos la ruta convencional por una más atrevida y ensayamos caminos nuevos, la gente rígida y pegada a las normas nos rotulará de inmaduros o "inestables", como si no cambiar de rumbo fuera sinónimo de inteligencia.

Faith requires at times marching into the waters before they part.

We've seen that companies sometimes use a hypothetical What If question to temporarily remove constraints that can inhibit ambitious thinking (What if cost weren't an issue—how might we do things differently?), and the same principle applies when people are pursuing new ideas or embarking on change in their lives. Often the biggest constraint is fear of failure.

give yourself a strong incentive to want to risk failure.

In some ways, it can be more difficult or risky for those in authority to question. In Hal Gregersen's study of business leaders who question, he found that they exhibited an unusual "blend of humility and confidence"15—they were humble enough to acknowledge a lack of knowledge, and confident enough to admit this in front of others.

These days it's easier and less expensive to just try out your ideas than to figure out if you should try them out.

The world of capitalism is, essentially, a roller coaster, what goes up, must come down.

Success in investing doesn't correlate with I.Q. once you're above the level of 25. Once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing.

Too often, though, investors forget to examine the assumptions behind the models. Beware of geeks bearing formulas.

You're dealing with a lot of silly people in the marketplace; it's like a great big casino and everyone else is boozing. If you can stick with Pepsi, you should be O.K.

It's only when the tide goes out that you learn who's been swimming naked.

In our view,… derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction, carrying dangers that, while now latent, are potentially lethal.

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.

Time in the market is better than timing the market.

Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful

Rule No. 1 : Never lose money. Rule No. 2 : Never forget Rule No. 1.

You never know who's swimming naked until the tide goes out.