Quotes About Risk

The biggest risk, is to take no risks

the biggest risk is to take no risk. or to take crazy risks.

Sometimes I think I'd rather be frightened than bored. At least when you're frightened you know you're alive.

My fear is that I go up to the girl of my dreams and say 'I'm sorry, but I've got to say hello to you ' and she slides the stool back and gets up and walks away, saying, 'Not for me, Bub. I don't want anything to do with you.'

Everybody is a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.

If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.

When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done

If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance, no satisfaction (profit apart) in constructing a factory, a railway, a mine or a farm, there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.

A 'sound' banker, alas, is not one who sees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional and orthodox way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him.

The game of professional investment is intolerably boring and overexacting to anyone who is entirely exempt from the gambling instinct; whilst he who has it must pay to this propensity the appropriate toll

The hope of a very favourable outcome, which may balance the risk in the mind of the borrower, is not available to solace the lender.

There is a danger of expecting the results of the future to be predicted from the past.

If .. spontaneous optimism falters, leaving us to depend on nothing but a mathematical expectation, enterprise will fade and die.

It is an occupational risk of biologists to claim, towards the end of their careers, that the problems which they have not solved are insoluble.

Other people make plans. We make life-or-death risk assessments. Often, our illness mandates that we play it safe, not tempt fate. But if we don't take risks, we lose out on all those life-affirming experiences that define us as human.

Call it the bipolar's dilemma: Take a chance and we risk losing control of our brains. Play it safe and we isolate ourselves from humanity.

If everyone slept with the person he or she had secretly fallen in love with, the world would be chaos.

The greatest risk there is. The risk of parenthood. You're a mother.

Life just isn't worth living unless you're willing to take some big chances and go for broke.

A matter, as the famous book intoned, of finding the shade of the parachute that best complemented you. But really: With no parachute at all you'd hit the pavement so hard it probably wouldn't even hurt, and you'd unleash a whole new color palate-bone, blood, muscle-in the process.

It's amazing that for actors mostly, it's a risk to attach yourself to a film that you don't know whether or not it's going to even be made and if you sign on, in doing so, who else is going to be in the movie with you.

Whenever the constraint is broken it changes conditions to the extent that it is very dangerous to extrapolate from the past." "As a matter of fact," Stacey adds, "even the things that we put in place in order to elevate the constraint must be reexamined.

Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?

She was young, a Stranger to the World, and consequently to the Dangers of it; and having no Body in Town, at that Time, to whom she was oblig'd to be accountable for her Actions,