Quotes About Risk

When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.

I will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. You try to be greedy when others are fearful. And you try to be fearful when others are greedy.

You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.

We're more comfortable in that kind of business. It means we miss a lot of very big winners. But we wouldn't know how to pick them out anyway. It also means we have very few big losers - and that's quite helpful over time. We're perfectly willing to trade away a big payoff for a certain payoff.

If you're an investor, you're looking on what the asset is going to do, if you're a speculator, you're commonly focusing on what the price of the object is going to do, and that's not our game.

it is almost exclusively our sons who are willing to risk death so their family will have a better life.

it is more accurate and compassionate to understand that both sexes were working to promote life—women risked death to create life; men risked death to protect life.

Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.

It is very easy to never fall down: Just don't ever do anything.

Most Gamblers start with a little, and strive to turn it into a lot : Invariably they end up turning a lot into a little

Nebraska made it almost impossible for critics to miss Springsteen's willingness to take a chance in the name of his art. If Springsteen was driven simply by fame and mainstream success, there would have been no good reason to make or release a Nebraska. The album made it impossible to use the word "sellout.

You can always die. It's living that takes real courage." - Himura Kenshin

You miss 100 of the shots you never take.

You miss one hundred percent of the shots you don't take.

You will never get what you don't ask for. You can't find what you aren't looking for. "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take

You miss 100% percent of the shots you don't take

Adventures are funny things. Some streak down upon you like a storm. Others emerge after many years have passed and something forgotten is revealed. They can be discovered on a dusty bookshelf or the yellowed pages of an ancient map. They promise great reward, but no adventure is without risk.

Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasing the risk of penetration of the new intelligence apparatus by the insurgency.

Three things it is best to avoid a strange dog, a flood, and a man who thinks he is wise.

Anyone as stupidly brave as Atsumori is not going to understand Kenichi I was not stupid. Odds were that I would have drowned; I was in full armor.

You got nothin' to lose but your self-respect.

Real protection means teaching children to manage risks on their own, not shielding them from every hazard.