Quotes About Risk

When the market goes to hell, it's more of an opportunity than a problem.

I've put on a helmet more times than I've buckled a seatbelt.

What happens during recessions, is you have less windfalls just helping you cover mistakes. You have to be more careful about not making mistakes.

The result showed that fortune helps the brave.

In 'Henry V,' the story of the assumption of true and responsible leadership by Henry I think is hard-won. He has to lose friends; he has to risk his life.

When you break the rules and you win, you're a hero; when you lose, you're scurrilous.

I've never played a hero before so I jumped at the chance.

You gotta learn that if you're gonna take the last shot of the game, it's either gonna go in, or it's not gonna go in, and you're either gonna be the hero or the goat.

When I was doing Bond, I was always being sent scripts to play the derring-do hero, with explosions going on all around.

Even if you've been a coward all your life, death is a heroic act.

My wife Lorrie actually looked in the dictionary to see what the definition was of heroism because it had been used so much. She found at least one definition is someone who chooses to put themselves at risk to save another.

He who hesitates is a damned fool.

You need wickets to be brave. When you get wickets, you can try anything. But when you don't, you always hesitate to try a few things because it is not always about giving runs and getting wickets.

High risk is high adrenaline.

A man in high heels is the most dangerous thing in the world.

The higher the risk, the higher the reward.

I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.

Film is the most expensive, highest risk industry in the world.

According to the American Heart Association, the prevalence of hypertension in African Americans in the United States is among the highest in the world.

I can't afford to do the highlight dunk and miss it because, if I do that, I'll be sitting right on the bench beside the coaches.

Remember Circuit City? Bear Stearns? Lehman Brothers? Sports Authority? Once, all were billion-dollar companies - then gone in a moment. The fatal problem might be fraud or corruption, but more often, it's simply that management didn't see 'over the other side of the hill.'

Ackbar spoke desperately into the comlink. "It's a trap.

Why I stick my neck out for you, when all you ever bring me is trouble, is beyond my capacity to comprehend.

Then the Old Man of the Earth stooped over the floor of the cave, raised a huge stone from it, and left it leaning. It disclosed a great hole that went plumb-down. That is the way, he said. But there are no stairs. You must throw yourself in. There is no other way.