Quotes About Risk

People often say that having a family makes you make safer choices. It's been the total opposite for me. It's really made me want to make bolder choices.

We opened the first Men's Wearhouse in Houston in August 1973, then a store a year for 10 years in Texas. In the early 1980s I opened a store in the San Francisco Bay Area. Within the year, the Texas economy was in total disarray. We were facing Chapter 11, and if not for the California store, we might not have survived.

I love the idea of cooking, but I don't like using recipe books, so I'll put a mish-mash together, and it might be amazing by total accident, or it will be a catastrophe.

I was a pilot and flying hang gliders, paragliders, aerobatics airplanes, and then I discovered skydiving. Free fall. Free. With nothing around you, just a parachute on your back. And you go down. But you don't feel like you're going down. Total freedom.

Motor racing can never be totally safe and it never should be in my opinion.

We were diving in caves. It wasn't totally safe.

Instead of playing to win, I was playing not to lose. It reminds me of the story I once heard about two friends being chased by a bear, when one turned to the other and said, "I just realized that I don't need to outrun the bear; I only need to outrun you.

People don't dream all their lives of escaping the hellish countries they live in and pay their life savings to underworld types for the privilege of being locked up in a freezing, filthy, stinking container ship and hauled like cargo for weeks until they finally arrive in Moscow or Beijing or Baghdad or Kabul. People risk their lives to come here---to New York. The greatest city in the world, where dreams become reality.

It takes curiosity to find your call to adventure, it takes courage to venture into the unknown, and it takes imagination to create your path.

I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity,

It takes a special strength to be willing to scrap the life that others have planned for us—safe, beaten trails walked by millions—and embrace one fraught with uncertainty, danger, and the unknown.

Most opportunities never announce themselves with trumpets and confetti. They're easily missed, mistaken, or squandered. They can be scary. And they never come with a 110% money-back guarantee. They're often nothing more than chances to improve on something other people are already doing. Opportunities are whispers, not foghorns.

Look at Columbus, or Magellan: looking back, historians call you an explorer, but at the time, you're just lost.

I make my own chances- Wedge Antilles

I'm never afraid to try something if I think it's funny. And I know I'll regret it if I don't.

Terror is just the cousin of courage

In those strange days when if anything unexpected could happen it probably would.

Etliche wünschen sich Gewalt Und Aufstieg ohne Aufenhalt Und sehen nicht, daß, wer hoch steigt, Von solcher Höhe fällt gar leicht, Und daß, wer auf der Erde liegt, Vorm Fall sich braucht zu fürchten nicht.

I think human society for tens of thousands of years has sent young men out in small groups to do things that are necessary but very dangerous. And they've always gotten killed doing it. And they've always turned it into a matter of honor and a way of gaining acceptance back into society if they survived.

What would you risk dying for—and for whom—is perhaps the most profound question a person can ask themselves. The vast majority of people in modern society are able to pass their whole lives without ever having to answer that question, which is both an enormous blessing and a significant loss.

Combat isn't where you might die -- though that does happen -- it's where you find out whether you get to keep on living. Don't underestimate the power of that revelation. Don't underestimate the things young men will wager in order to play that game one more time.

One hedge fund had imploded, threatening to start a systemic fire. Another hedge fund had swooped in, acting as the fireman.

The bottom line is what we do might not be the safest so there is always some risk but we are ready to take that into account because we love racing and we love motor sports and it is dangerous.

When you walk the track and you see a corner and realise you were going round it at 160mph, you wonder who could be so stupid to take a corner at that speed. But in the car, you don't even think about that.