Quotes About Risk

If you are not willing to be a fool, you can't become a master.

A medida que nuestro poder tecnológico se expande, el peligro que planteamos aumenta, y las consecuencias de nuestra estupidez voluntaria se multiplican.

Slay the dragon in his lair before he comes to your village. If you run from the things you are afraid of, you run from what you need, in fact, to find.

Trying to address a perplexing problem: the reason or reasons for the nuclear standoff of the Cold War. I couldn't understand how belief systems could be so important to people that they were willing to risk the destruction of the world to protect them.

I couldn't understand how belief systems could be so important to people that they were willing to risk the destruction of the world to protect them.

the individual brave enough to voluntarily beard the serpent in his lair is most likely to gain access to the untold riches that exist in potential, awaiting us in the adventure of our life, away from security and what is currently known. Who dares wins*—if he does not perish.

Almost all learning happens in spite of fear, because to learn something you have to explore something new and that is usually something that is frightening. If you are willing to face something that is frightening, you can garter something of value.

How do you know that your attempts to pull someone up won't instead bring them—or you—further down?

Failing to look under the bed when you strongly suspect a monster is lurking there is not an advisable strategy.

If you stick your neck out, then the sword will come.

I will trust you—I will extend my hand to you—despite the risk of betrayal, because it is possible, through trust, to bring out the best in you, and perhaps in me. So, I will accept substantial risk to open the door to cooperation and negotiation.

In all these triumph stories, the hero has to go into the unknown, into an unexplored territory, and deal with a new great challenge and take great risks. In the process, something of himself has to die, or be given up, so he can be reborn and meet the challenge. This requires courage, something rarely discussed in a psychology class or textbook.

It will render you more likely to abuse cocaine and alcohol, as you live for the present in a world full of uncertain futures.

The Dutch prepare their dikes for the worst storm in ten thousand years. Had New Orleans followed that example, no tragedy would have occurred. It's not that no one knew.

Her house was built on a foundation of sand. The ice she was skating on was simply too thin. She fell through, into the water below, and is drowning.

What if she had continually and honestly risked

I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?

Wait a second, Bill: you mean to tell me that if I put you into Union Carbide at 7 and took you out at 32, and I put you into U.S. Steel at 16 and took you out at 41, and I put you into Facebook at 70 and took you out at 130, then you wouldn't be saying, 'Pick me up at least a few thousand shares of Microsoft right now, on the spot, come on'?

If life's taught me anything, it's that you might as well eat your dessert first, 'cos the ceiling might fall in before you're even done with the salad.

I'd always thought that rules were just for people who tended to get caught.

if gambling is exciting, you're doing it wrong.

Safety warning: never divide by zero unless a licensed mathematician is present.

who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

Big Data isn't magic, and it doesn't tell the feds who's a terrorist and who's not. But it doesn't have to be magic to generate long lists of people who are in some ways red-flagged, elevated-risk, "people of interest." Most of the people on those lists will have nothing to do with terrorism. How confident are you that you're not one of them?