Quotes About Risk

If you're not terrified, you're not going to win. You have to ride right up to the edge of control and not make any mistakes that cost you time.

When riding my old Harley a ninety per at midnight down the Via Roma in Naples, I kept one consolation firmly in mind: If anything goes wrong, I'll never have time to regret it.

I believe in diversification of income, because you never know what will happen. I'm a slightly paranoid person who thinks things could be ruined at any time.

When it comes time to protecting the homeland, the United States of America must be right 100 percent of the time. And the enemy, which desires to strike us again, only has to be right once.

For Kips Bay, I had a wonderful client, William Zeckendorf, who was willing to gamble with me on using concrete and not brick for a high-rise apartment building. That was very innovative at the time.

Every time I get on an airplane I figure it's gonna get blown up. You live on the edge.

You need the willingness to fail all the time.

An asset allocation plan is based on your personal circumstances, goals, time-horizon, and need and willingness to take risk.

I've come close to death more times than Elizabeth Taylor has said 'I do.'

Every time I've strayed from the beaten path I've never regretted it.

There is a time when to avoid trouble is to store up trouble, and when to seek for a lazy and a cowardly peace is to court a still greater danger.

If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.

I feel vulnerable every single time I step into a classroom. I feel completely exposed.

Be cautious of bears at all times, even when being mauled by a tiger.

Anything done for the first time unleashes a demon.

Texting and driving at the same time is like jerking off and juggling at the same time. Too many balls in the air, if you catch my drift.

It's like I'd been walking a tightrope with a big safety net underneath me, but I never really thought about the net until someone took it away. And then every single step scared me to death.

Thanks a lot! She went and hid somewhere else, somewhere safe- and left me to deal with Mr. Pyromaniac 1483!

The rewards are worth far more than the risks.

Great, Trey thought. I do one brave thing in my entire life, and now it's like, 'Got anything dangerous to do? Send Trey. He can handle it.' Doesn't anyone remember that Cowardice is my middle name?

Luke thought he'd been escaping danger when he took Lee Grant's identity. Why did he suddenly feel like he'd only traded one peril for another?

We'd better get going." Caramon glanced around uneasily. "We show up like a jewel in a gypsy dancer's navel.

There comes a time, Laurana, when you've got to risk your life for something you believe in—something that means more than life itself.

There comes a time, Laurana, when you've got to risk your life for something you believe in -- something that means more than life itself.