Quotes About Risk

Let the freedom to fail give you the hope to fight.

If death is no longer a fear, we're really free. Free to take any risk under the sun for Christ and for love.

It is better to lose your life than to waste it.

You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives.

Banks: "We should anticipate that at any point in time our U.S. banking system could suffer a blow from which it could not bounce back and which would result in government takeover…In whatever way it may start, if it starts, a series of major bank failures would totally alter the nation as we now know it.

Thus situated, the perilous experiment must be made. Let me make it with full deliberations, and be prepared for the consequences.

Once we love, we are vulnerable: there is no such things as loving while being ready to consider whether to love, just like that. And the loves that may hurt the least are not the best loves. When we love we accept the dangers of injury and loss.

There is not necessarily a good reason why a regulator should have to be involved in product design and marketing for rich and sophisticated investors. We recommend that such investors should be able to sign a piece of paper, which allows them to go ahead and buy unregulated products at their own risk.

This is what you get for letting rednecks play with antimatter, boss

the sea showed that it can be a deadly enemy and that those who go to sea for pleasure must do so in the full knowledge that they may encounter dangers of the highest order.

I'm not insane, sir. I have a finely calibrated sense of acceptable risk.

In other words, crew deaths are a feature, not a bug," Cassaway said, dryly.

The American male at the peak of his physical powers and appetites, driving 160 big white horses across the scenes of an increasingly open society, with weekend money in his pocket and with little prior exposure to trouble and tragedy, personifies an accident going to happen.

When one carries poison, thoughts of death are never far away.

My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.

Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.

Even as life gets safer, longer, and richer, people clamor for new regulations every time a child falls down a well.

Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of our time.

That so few dare be eccentric marks the chief danger of our time.

This is technology that will not go away. And to risk it moving into the hands of a terrorist group like al Qaeda or to other focused enemies of the United States, would have tragic consequences.

In Washington, the venerable were often vulnerable.

The four most dangerous words in investing are: "this time it's different."

Risk means everything from being honest about your faith, to moving, to quitting a job that's paying you a fortune but it's not what's in your heart. Risking things is one of the biggest fears we have.