Quotes About Risk

Nought venture nought have.

My attitude these days is, if you write a bad song, what are they gonna do, throw you in songwriter jail?

Is there some risk every day we walk out our front door? Every time we get in our car? Yeah. Are we materially less safe now than we were 10 years ago? Whatever delta there is, it's very small.

How can you render the duties of justice to men when they may destroy you?

The ability to overcome failure—to live through it and move on—is crucial. If we are not willing to face failure—if we don't have the skills to survive it—we have precluded any real creativity or risk. Failure may never become our friend, but if we are to do meaningful work, perhaps failure needs to be our companion.

One thing that stock investing has in common with real estate is that location is very important. In this case, however, we're referring to where in the stock market your money is located. Being in the right sectors and industry groups can enhance your overall performance. Being in the wrong ones can hurt it.

Acknowledge your mistakes, correct them, and go on, but take the risk of enjoying what you've got, and be brave enough to change what doesn't work.

Genes determine our risk for a disease, but our lifestyle and environment can either trigger or suppress those risks.

La gente se sacrifica sin cesar para que otros puedan vivir. Los soldados en combate. Los bomberos en un edificio en llamas. Los policías en las calles de una ciudad. ¿Es ti vida tan feliz, tan productiva y tan importante para que asumamos automáticamente que es más valiosa que lo que podría costar?

Se aclama a los escaladores que ponen en peligro su vida por alcanzar la cima del Everest. Se critica a los escaladores que cometen un leve error de cálculo o planificación y mueren en el intento. Pero nadie recuerda a los escaladores que fueron conscientes de sus limitaciones y se dieron la vuelta a pocos metros de la cima. Puede que estén vivos, pero olvidados.»

Un buen psicoterapeuta es como un jugador de póquer con las apuestas altas —pensó—. Evita dar pistas a los demás jugadores para poder tirarse un farol y quedarse con lo que hay en el centro de la mesa.»

El miedo y el mar son una combinación letal.

En mi lápida quiero que diga: «Estaba loco, pero al menos lo intentó.» —¡Papá!

con la variedad compensó la incertidumbre.

Puedes escalar una montaña, puedes surcar a nado el mar. Puedes lanzarte a las llamas, pero nunca serás libre...

A veces pienso que nos pasamos tanto tiempo tomando precauciones contra eventualidades terribles que no nos queda gran cosa que valga la pena.

There were few noises on the earth that spelled out the promise of trouble quite as much as siren sounds.

Las manos no son lo verdaderamente peligroso. Lo verdaderamente peligroso es, es lo que tenemos en la cabeza".

Stock markets are not a way of putting money into companies, but a means of taking it out. The

Fishin' for whales is a nice gentle sport as long as you don't catch any.

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.

Inflation does not lubricate trade but by rescuing traders from their errors of optimism or stupidity.

People fo privilage will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.