Quotes About Risk

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Para vivir una vida creativa, debemos perder nuestro miedo a equivocarnos" (Joseph Chilton Pearce)

It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.

The world of finance is a mysterious world in which, incredible as the fact may appear, evaporation precedes liquidation. First the capital evaporates, and then the company goes into liquidation.

He who never makes a mistake never makes anything. It's part of learning the job.

In the heat of battle, all things are uncertain.

The utility that allowed emotions to persist in the genes of our species may have been the ability to personalize value. Rather than simply detecting risk and avoiding danger, the organism could consider, "How dangerous is this to me?" Other animals can represent value, but only humans can make it personal. In this view, an emotion is the experience that something of value is happening to you. If so, emotions could not exist without autonoesis. No self, no emotion.

Overborrowing or overlending? Lenders encourage indebtedness because it is profitable. Developing country governments are sometimes even pressured to overborrow ... Even without corruption, it is easy to be influenced by Western businessmen and financiers ... Countries that aren't sure that borrowing is worth the rist are told how important it is to establis a credit rating: borrow even if you really don't need the money.

It will be dangerous but I do not mind dangerous. I am brave.

Because he could not afford to fail, he could not afford to trust.

Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third.

I nodded sagely. "If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure." Masur looked at me quizzically. "Dan Quayle said that," I added. Whether he actually did or not, I liked the quote.

Did a few poor souls die because of the Big Dig? Son, a hundred men died building the Hoover Dam. A thousand men died building the Erie Canal. Four hundred Chinamen died building the transcontinental railroad. How about the Panama Canal? One of the greatest engineering feats in history? Thirty thousand men died building it. Ambitious projects always cost lives, son. That's the truth. Have you ever visited the great pyramids of Giza?

Driving is so dangerous I haven't got the guts to do it sober.

When people run out of probable things to do, they do improbable things.

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.

Be bold, be bold, but not too bold, Lest that your heart's blood should run cold.

To my mind losing is always better than never trying, because you can never tell what may happen.

I've never believed in seeking perfection at the risk of losing everything.

Identify your 70/20/10 (or 60/30/10 depending on risk appetite). Most people know of this allocation from the innovation approach that Eric Schmidt pioneered at Google: 70 percent of time allocated to core business tasks, 20 percent to projects directly related to the core business, and 10 percent dedicated to projects unrelated to the core business.

Siempre hay que estar alerta: el momento en que uno cree que ha ganado es siempre el momento más peligroso

When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees.

As I have argued, the essence of anxiety is the unpleasant feeling—the apprehension, dread, angst, and worry—that one experiences when one perceives a lack of control in situations of uncertainty and risk. It