Quotes About Risk

That's the way both they and I travel sometimes. Pick road at random, and when it's time to pull over, you pull over and hope you can find a place to crash.

The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy.

If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster

The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.

The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb.

I've spent an awful lot of my time in the air. I've had everything happen to me in a plane that could happen. Except a crash.

Investigate carefully before you invest. Spend as much time researching the investment as you spend earning the money.

It is time to face real world, even if it is harder and painful. I'd rather fly and crash, than just snuggle and sleep.

Investors repeatedly jump ship on a good strategy just because it hasn't worked so well lately, and, almost invariably, abandon it at precisely the wrong time.

A "take" is an opportunity to fail ... and we think that we have to get it right all the time.

You shouldn't own common stocks if a 50 per cent decrease in their value in a short period of time would cause you acute distress.

As time went on, I got envious and wanted to do a lot of stunts myself

The safe time to invest is when there is blood in the streets.

I myself had to grow a longer beard and Afghan clothes. I was in danger of being kidnapped by smugglers, though I didn't know it at the time.

You will never be completely free from risk if you're free. The only time you can be free from risk is when you're in prison.

A heart full of courage and cheerfulness needs a little danger from time to time, or the world gets unbearable.

Making pictures, for an actress, is like betting, for a gambler. Each time you make a picture you try to analyze why you won or lost.

It's just a matter of time before we have a cyber Pearl Harbor.

Foreign policy is like hitting a baseball: if you fail 70 percent of the time, you go to the Hall of Fame.

I've told you for the fifty-thousandth time, stop exaggerating. Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

I view derivatives as time bombs, both for the parties that deal in them and the economic system.

I've been known to make out with girls from time to time. Couple drinks involved, you know, it's fun. And who knows, maybe it'll go further someday.

I happen to believe that the preemption school is correct, that the risks of allowing Saddam Hussein to acquire his weapons will only grow with time.

They put me in a harness, like a horse, to learn the back somersault. It was weird up there when I put on that harness for the first time. The courage came with practice.