Quotes About Risk

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.

He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.

People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.

As they prepared themselves to go ashore no one doubted in theory that at least a certain percentage of them would remain on the island dead, once they set foot on it. But no one expected to be one of these. Still it was an awesome thought and as the first contingents came struggling up on deck in full gear to form up, all eyes instinctively sought out immediately this island where they were to be put, and left, and which might possibly turn out to be a friend's grave.

Fortune and glory, kid. Fortune and glory.

sometimes it worked better to just do a thing and see what happened, rather than thinking it through to exhaustion.

The good news is that while you will get robbed if you stay in Paris long enough and are not vigilant, you're very unlikely to get beaten up or killed.

Mitch, have you ever tried fucking while stoking a furnace and running an engine?

You tried to stick your cock in his mouth." "I panicked. I thought it might be my only chance.

I was close to shooting; he was a very good cocksucker.

You ain't never going to get rich that way, Johnson. And there's money in that dick. Lots of money.

Do your worst, Johnson. Fuck me if you want.

business venture

I'm too young to die." "Yeah, and I'm too well known." -Droma and Han Solo

To die would be an awfully big adventure.

I loved her like a rabbit loves a rattlesnake

If you want a decision, go to the point of danger.

Hermann Buhl with K2. First

I guess true courage is when you're really scared but you still do it.

avoid dying a moment before we have to. Given that we expend so much effort staying alive, it might seem strange to think that anyone

Excellent. It looks like we've got it all worked out for me to join a group of men sworn to kill me so we can face off with a dragon that melts stone with his breath." She grinned. "And Stagger used to complain that I never planned ahead.

You don't fear so you live, you live so you fear.

Those who are brave, are the greatest cowards of all. For they fear failure.

Whoever is unable to show a correspondence between wealth and the risks undergone to acquire it, or the talents spent in its acquisition, will soon face a challenge over entitlement. The rich are regularly subject to theft, to taxation, to the expectation that their wealth be shared, as though what they have is not true compensation and therefore not completely theirs.