Quotes About Risk

Any time you put too many sparks around a powder keg, the thing is going to explode, and if the things that explodes is still inside the house, then the house will be destroyed.

I do sometimes think I could have done without the drugs actually; that was a waste of time, and a huge risk. But then again, there's nothing I can change, so in a way regret is pointless.

Will we march only to the music of time, or will we, risking criticism and abuse, march to the soul-saving music of eternity?

By the time I was four, I would walk around the corner and wait at a local streetcar stop, get on the streetcar with somebody who looked like they could be my mother and go to the end of the line.

I talk to God and make deals with him every time I gamble. Otherwise, I leave him alone.

Make the time to be scared of more interesting things.

You can't time the market.

The best actors in the world are the actors who don't keep the walls up all the time and allow themselves the potential to be embarrassed.

Maybe it's your time to lift off and fly You won't know if you never try.

A one-time tax does not get figured into people's investment decisions.

I don't think you're going to get nominated every time you jump out of the box.

The average man don't like trouble and danger.

October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February.

It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.

Do the thing you fear the most and the death of fear is certain.

Behold, the fool saith, Put not all thine eggs in the one basket - which is but a matter of saying, Scatter your money and your attention; but the wise man saith, Pull all your eggs in the one basket and - WATCH THAT BASKET. - Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.

At noon I observed a bevy of nude young native women bathing in the sea, and I went and sat down on there clothes to keep them from being stolen.

During the gold rush its a good time to be in the pick and shovel business

The preacher who casts a vote for conscience' sake, runs the risk of starving.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.

There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it.

Almost every convert runs the risk of catching our civilization... I compassionate missionary, leave China! come home and convert these Christians!

If you hold a cat by the tail, you learn things you cannot learn any other way