Quotes About Risk

By the time they get to 6th grade honor roll students won't risk making a mistake, and sometimes to be successful, you have to risk making mistakes.

When was the last time you did something for the first time?

To get anywhere, or even to live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again, without enough data for a logical answer.

I'm not much of a club goer because every time I do go I get in trouble.

I did not realize at the time, as I have discovered since, that anyone who attempts any thing original in this world must expect a bit of ridicule. Clarence Birdseye

Sometimes, the decisions have to be taken in minutes, even seconds, and there would be no time to make the right decision. We understood that this could have ended in catastrophe.

It was obvious that their profits were simply cash borrowed from destiny with some random payback time.

The real danger with debt is what happens if lots of people decide, or are forced, to pay it off at the same time.

I moved to cricket at a time when I was at the peak of my career, and I can guarantee you that no one else from Bollywood would have done that.

Dovie'andi se tovya sagain (It's time to roll the dice) - Matrim Cauthon

I had a hard time publishing my books in the beginning of my career, because editors were afraid what people would think of THEM, personally, if their name was associated with me

Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent.

Fooling around with alternating currents is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever. It's too dangerous . . . it could kill a man as quick as a bolt of lightning. Direct current is safe.

I'm interested in man's march into the unknown but to vomit in space is not my idea of a good time. Neither is a fiery crash with the vomit hovering over me.

You are exposing yourself all the time as an actor. There's the risk of being thought of as bad or boring or unattractive.

Well, I jumped for the first time when I was 16. I just loved it and immediately realized that it was what I wanted to do.

If you're a person who says yes most of the time, you'll find yourself in the hotel business and the restaurant business.

Seek opportunity, not security. A boat in the harbor is safe, but in time its bottom will rot out.

Any Congressional agreement of an arbitrary time table to bring our troops home before we have accomplished our mission is unacceptable and could potentially increase the risk to our soldiers.

I am trying to think of the last time that I just said, 'What the hell!' and did something crazy.

I would never speculate on the limit. Every time you speculate, you're way too conservative

Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued.

By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one.

Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether this is going to the easel, or the page, or onto the stage.