Quotes About Risk

You know what I want?" Drey asked. "Name it." Hawk knew he would move heaven and earth if she asked him. She stood and started taking off her clothes. "I'm not sure where exactly this is headed, but I'm liking it," he said.

You hire another PI and you'll only get him killed - and start a shit storm that is going to rain down on not only you but also your husband and his daughters. You sure it's worth it just to get some dirt on your husband's former wife?

I have a huge favor, but I should warn you up front it's not just dangerous. It's illegal.

Best be ready for the consequences when you go poking a porcupine with a stick, missy. Someone's bound to get hurt and it won't be the porcupine.

What would it hurt to have one cup of coffee with him?

She warned herself to let it go. But that meant letting the painting go. She couldn't do that, she thought with a curse. And Laramie Cardwell was practically daring her to come steal it.

This woman would be the death of him.... He told himself he wouldn't be stupid enough to let her steal his heart.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

First, we did rank everybody by risk, and New York comes out number one.

After 2008, my brand of finance got a bad rap.

Security is tantamount in the world of digital currencies, and rapid growth puts the security of the entire ecosystem at risk.

One of the problems with hedge funds is that they are changing so rapidly. If you have the balance sheet that closed business last night, by 11 A.M. this morning, that won't tell you very much about what they're doing.

All my friends were rappers, so I just thought I might as well take a shot at it.

Financial innovation is an oxymoron. It's very rare that there is something that's actually financial innovation. It's a euphemism for hiding leverage.

It's rare to find a film that goes for broke and says, 'To hell with the consequences.'

If you're positioned to start your own organization, that's great - but rare.

It is extraordinary how safe flying has become. You are now statistically more likely to be elected president of the United States in your lifetime than you are to die in a plane crash. What an amazing achievement as a society! But what we end up focusing on are the catastrophic failures that are incredibly rare but happen every now and then.

I know the benefits of having a really great improv show are amazing because it was this one rare and fleeting thing that was incredible, but the risk just didn't appeal to me. I liked the control of sitting down and writing things.

I've always thought that I'd make a pretty good police officer, except maybe for the danger part. I have a rare medical condition that makes it difficult for me to risk getting shot, so probably I'd have to be one of those officers who work in 'do not shoot' areas.

I've been in plenty of crashes! Some are not too bad - resulting in ice burn. Others are pretty rough, and sometimes - rarely, but sometimes - people do get seriously injured. It's a risk we all know of and accept. If you bobsled, you're going to crash - guaranteed.

I rarely know too much about anything I'm getting involved in.

I had trouble focusing as a child and I still sort of do, but when you climb and you're going to die if you fall, you have 100 percent focus. That's a rarity in life and a gift to have something that brings you that clarity.

Part of writing a novel is being willing to leap into the blackness. You have very little idea, really, of what's going to happen. You have a broad sense, maybe, but it's this rash leap.

There is a difference between being bold and being rash.