Quotes About Risk

I wanted to be a gymnast when I was young - I used to do backflips and all those things in the street and at home - but my grandma said it was dangerous and made me stop.

I honestly don't think I can hack it in the 9-to-5 world, though I've never actually tried.

How many of the 'Fortune' 500 are hacked? 500.

I've bombed on stage millions and millions of times. And that's part of it. You go up with a half-baked idea, and you bomb, and so what? Nothing bad happens if you bomb.

At West Ham, I was never able to buy the top-flight players. It was a case of looking around, trying to do deals. I was always taking a gamble.

Because sole proprietors report their business profits and losses to the IRS on Schedule C, there is a much higher risk of IRS audit. Schedule C returns are audited at a five times greater rate than corporate tax returns.

if an LLC had not been used the result would have been much worse.

you are better off not using a general partnership in the first place.

creditors will go after the easiest target with the deepest pockets.

When holding an asset, as a general rule you will be better protected using an LLC instead of a corporation.

Whenever possible, use business credit cards or loans rather than personal credit, even if you have to give a personal guarantee.

you don't want a lot of assets in one LLC (or LP). An LLC that holds ten properties is a much bigger target than ten LLCs each holding one property. In the first case, a fall at one property exposes the other nine properties to attack.

I have never known what to tell anybody. Except that it is better to do something than nothing, even if the cost is great.

But we survived, didn't we? That makes it an adventure. If you get killed it's a tragedy.

Your father is angry with me because he thinks I almost got myself killed,' said Sabriel, with a slight grin. 'I don't understand it myself, since I think he should be glad that I didn't.

You are an adventurer! exclaimed Sylvie. She tore herself away from the window and handed the glasses back to her. But I suppose that could work. Only, what will happen afterwards? 'I was planning to worry about afterwards when there is an afterwards, replied Leaf. And I'm not an adventurer. At least not by choice. I've done that once and learned my lesson. No more adventures without knowing what I'm getting into. They wouldn't be adventures, then, said Sylvie.

I don't have a lot of valuables on me at the moment though... and I need the ones I have for my Quest. Could you perhaps agree to rob me later? - Anya

I could go into Death?' asked Clariel. 'Anyone can go into Death,' said Mogget, with a smirk. 'Coming back again is the difficult part.

Who in an orchestra is most likely to be struck by lightning?" he called to his children. "The conductor.

home prices don't rise as fast or as much as Americans think, and even when they do, such levels are rarely sustainable (as we have seen in recent years). So there is often no financial justification for buying more house than you can afford in the hope that price hikes will reward you later.

For diversification to work as a salve for the pains of loss, you must avoid looking at losses or gains in isolation.

Our advice? Put no more than 10 percent of your nest egg into stocks of individual corporations. The rest should be spread out over other kinds of investments.

So ask yourself: "If the stock market drops 25 percent tomorrow, would I be tempted to pull all or some of my money out?" If the answer is yes, you're probably unprepared for the ups and downs of the stock market.

The sting of losing money, for example, often leads investors to pull out of the stock market unwisely when prices dip.