Quotes About Risk

Your mother would break my pate if she knew how I risked you. Father, Myste replied like a sun, all children must be risked. Mother knows that. How else are we to discover ourselves? King Jose and Myste (p. 908)

Believing the world is calm because we have never seen it otherwise is like taking the attitude of a man who jumps off the top of a tall building and figures that, since 29 of the 30 floors have passed without incident, he is going to be okay.

No podrás cruzar el mar si implemente te quedas en la orilla mirando el agua. RABINDRANATH TAGORE, POETA

you don't need a parachute to skydive. You need a parachute to skydive twice.

Remember, the second mouse to the trap is the one who always gets the cheese.

Speed lacks careful thought and generates too much risk.

What was the maxim? If you try to kill the king, make sure you do.

You've got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because she might not get there.Or – Yogi Berra.

But heroes, at time, had to be fools

Like he always said, if flying was so safe, why'd they call the airport a terminal?

Whenever I'm afraid of something coming up, I will find a way to do something that's even harder or scarier. Once I do the harder thing, the real thing becomes fun.

Owners of the spirit are beautiful losers. They risk all. They are losers because they have lost all fear of embarrassment. They have lost all inhibition. They have lost all concern for what other people might think.

Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. Rumi

Sin una matemática sólida, los negocios se convierten en un costoso juego de azar en el que uno apuesta su propio dinero y también el ajeno.

El crecimiento sin planificación es asunto riesgoso, muchas veces es más riesgoso que no intentar crecimiento alguno.

El atractivo del riesgo? Eso es para el setenta por ciento que no llega a los tres años en el mercado, no para mí.

El compromiso mínimo que pedimos al prospecto debe eliminar nuestro riesgo, o al menos hacerlo manejable.

Rouge et Noir

confidently motivated by poor judgment, I dropped in one-quarter of a Quaalude.

it's better to strive for a good solution and avoid disaster rather than trying to find the best solution

defect corrections have more than a 50 percent chance of being wrong the first time

Larry's major concern was not about landing, but to avoid going too high where the air was thin and the temperature low. At about fifteen thousand feet, Larry decided that it was time to descend a bit. As planned, he fired his BB gun at the balloons and punctured seven of them. Just at the moment that he was gazing down to check his altimeter, a gust

Avoiding risk is not much of a goal...whether you crawl into a hole or walk a high wire, nobody gets out of here alive. We cannot grow without challenge.

You should at least wear a life jacket, she scolded. If I do go over and watch my boat sail off into the sunset, I told her, I don't relish the idea of hanging about for several days while my flesh is slowly picked by fish, like some kind of oceanic bird feeder.