Quotes About Risk

Venture capital is unscalable. Production equals the time each partner has.

I bought a railroad during this period of time.

If you play it safe every time, then you're missing the best part of acting. You haven't learned anything about your humanity.

Any tightrope walker can walk in a straight line and hold a cane at the same time. It's the balancing on the rope at those dizzying heights that they have to practise

Peace talk when war is impending is hazardous for the talker, and in war time it is criminal. War talk in peace time, which is infinitely more wicked, runs no risk at all.

Actors put ourselves in awkward positions all the time.

I think since I did Monster I really started understanding how hard it is for first time directors. I think there's a lot of great stories out there, but it's high risk.

A speculator is a man who, if he dies at the right time, has a rich widow.

He keeps this up, he's bound to be caught, she thought. And this time they'll dangle him for certain.

Mix sheer hypocrisy with mediocrity, You play it safe every time.

I wanna go south and get some more. Hey, they say that a stitch in time saves nine, they say I better stop or I'll go blind.

I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.

I put everything I can into a record. That's what art is for. I take a risk every time I do one with my whole being.

When you are in the 8 o'clock position, you can either be a cultural phenomenon, or you're endangered. It's a tough time slot.

If you ask me if I think I will be sober in 24 hours time I can say yes, but in two years I can't tell you. I could be dead.

A terrorist can attack any time, any place using any technique and you can't defend everywhere against every technique at every moment.

It's exciting to try to do something in a totally different way - to bring out something totally different in me as a filmmaker. It's time to try something totally different.

We've suffered a "Ponzification" of the economy in recent years, as bubbles have built up and then burst, and each time we act as though it's the first time.

I'm willing to make a fool out of myself in public. I'm also willing to make those mistakes that you're going to make the first time you go out, so hopefully the next time it will be better.

The way Leo figured it, he spent more time crashing than he did flying. If there was a rewards card for frequent crashers, he'd be, like, double platinum level.

If you want to go into space first time on a new vehicle that's never been flown, you want to go with a pro.

Jump in a hole without looking, and there'll be a snake in it every time.

The world is only one poor harvest away from chaos. We are so close to the edge that politically destabilising food prices could come at any time

Once every seven days, do something that frightens you. Every time we do something that we resist and is frightening, we actually grow in our power.