Quotes About Risk

De l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace ! »

cuando se es valiente, esto no ocurre ni ante un ataque, ni ante la muerte inevitable, ni ante todas las formas conocidas de peligro: ocurre en ciertas circunstancias anormales, bajo ciertas influencias misteriosas frente a riesgos vagos. El

Paranoyak bir giriÅŸimciden daha beteri, olsa olsa köpeÄŸiyle konuÅŸan paranoyak bir giriÅŸimcidir. Fikirlerini serbestçe anlatmakla kaybedeceÄŸinden daha çok kazanacaklar?n var - geribeslenim, baÄŸlant?lar, aç?lacak kap?lar. EÄŸer fikrini yal?n biçimde tart??man onu savunmas?z k?l?yorsa, o zaman gerçek anlamda bir fikrin yok demektir.

The greater the difficulty of the change, the greater the need for enchantment. Factors that cause friction include expense, risk, and "politics." If a change is a big deal, then it's a big deal to make it happen.

If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late. —Reid Hoffman

Sé un héroe «Un héroe es un hombre que teme salir corriendo.» Proverbio inglés

Everyone would love to have a large and growing market, perfected technology, and infinite capital. Under those conditions, anyone can be an entrepreneur. The question is what you are willing to do and can you do when the conditions are far from perfect.

Your job is to find venture capitalists who make early bets on unproven startups.

An economic depression or a pandemic could occur. You never know. . . .

Learning by anecdote is risky, but waiting for scientific proof is too.

There is no such thing as a vanilla term sheet. If term sheets are ice cream, the most common flavor is Rocky Road.

My hypothesis is that the more an entrepreneur insists on a nondisclosure agreement, the less viable the idea.

College football would be much more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students, and even more interesting if the trustees played. There would be a great increase in broken arms, legs, and necks, and simultaneously an appreciable diminution in the loss of humanity.

The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors: they are enormously dangerous and hence enormously fascinating.

No tengo miedo a la soledad. La gente es infinitamente más peligrosa.

The best client is a scared millionaire.

Publish and be damned.

And at last I resolved to scale that tower, fall though I might; since it were better to glimpse the sky and perish, than to live without ever beholding day.

resolved to go with bold entreaty whither no man had gone before, and dare the icy deserts through the dark

resolved to go with bold entreaty whither no man had gone before, and dare the

Gold, or at least the prospect of it, saved him, then killed him.

When speculators have once entered Wall Street, they never leave it except in a pine box or a rosewood case, according to circumstances.

The first 10 days of a cattle drive were the most critical, as a stampede was most likely when the cattle were closest to their habitual home.

J.P. Morgan learned to fish in troubled waters.