Quotes About Risk

In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.

Going too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere.

We must stop destroying human capacity. Now. Too many of today's leaders are holding back the future because it comes wrapped in risks.

Why is what anyone thinks so important to you that you'd not be willing to risk all to trust God? The fear of man is very strongly associated with unbelief.

At minimum, we should at least attempt to do what Jesus did—including raise the dead. The fear of looking foolish to others has kept many from responding to this command of the Lord. In addition, we might never do this assignment well. But that does not give me the right to change the assignment to what I do well, and then call that my ministry.

This generation is a generation of risk takers. And not all the risks taken will be seen as real faith. Some will come to light as steps of foolishness and presumption. But they must be taken just the same. How else can we learn? Make room for risk takers in your life that don't bat a thousand. They will inspire you to the greatness available in serving a great God.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm a Pirate!

Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy.

You simply have to love show business to make the risk worthwhile.

There are some risks we choose to take because the benefits from taking them exceed the possible costs. Optimal behavior takes risks that are worthwhile. This is the central paradigm of finance: we must take risks to achieve rewards, but not all risks are equally rewarded.

In order to do anything worthwhile, one must take calculated risks.

Inequality has risen to the point that it seems to me worthwhile for the U.S. to seriously consider taking the risk of making our economy more rewarding for more of the people.

You'll learn that the most worthwhile exercises are preceded by this very human phenomenon, fear. Marriage, parenthood, relationships.

Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

An idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Bringing back something akin to Glass-Steagall would clearly help limit risk in the system. And that's a very good and worthy goal. Letting banks sell securities and insurance products and services allowed them to grow too big too fast and fueled a culture that put profit and pay over prudence.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy - yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

If you think too-big-to-fail banks are not worthy of investment because of their impossible-to-read balance sheets, well then, don't buy them.

There are some things worthy of risking your life for.

I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.

If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.