Quotes About Risk

The Act of God designation on all insurance policies... means roughly that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you. If your ox kicks a hole in your neighbor's Maserati, however, indemnity is instantaneous.

go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you'll be okay.

Flying involves endless hours of sheer boredom, punctuated by moments of stark terror.

Take the plunge. Jump in. Make friends and be vulnerable. Life is too short to alienate yourself.

You and I and everyone else are a bit like turtles: we only make progress when we stick our necks out a little.

Irrational exuberance

History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.

You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. — AndrÉ Gide

The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.

A church which pitches its tents without constantly looking out for new horizons, which does not continually strike camp, is being untrue to its calling. . . . [We must] play down our longing for certainty, accept what is risky, and live by improvisation and experiment. Hans Küng, The Church as the People of God

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.

Disaster often comes in the long run from suboptimal decisions in the short run

We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.

It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.

I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds.

It is a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.

If you went through life refusing all the bait dangled in front of you, that would be no life at all. No changes would be made and you would have nothing to fight against. Life would be dull as ditchwater.

We played in Texas about a year ago, at Emo's, the famous country and western club in Austin. And I figured, well, if I'm finally gonna die onstage, that's where it's going to be!

There can be great value in imagining our hero at the end of the story. When we have confidence in our destination we are more inclined to put our hero in jeopardy.

But when no risk is taken there is no freedom. It is thus that, in an industrial society, the plethora of laws made for our personal safety convert the land into a nursery, and policemen hired to protect us become selfserving busybodies.

aunque obviamente los humanos hemos sobrevivido a cualquier virus o meteorito que la naturaleza nos ha lanzado hasta ahora, la tecnología es algo que nosotros nos lanzamos a nosotros mismos por nuestra cuenta y riesgo.

Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.

Courage and willingness to just go for it, whether it is a conversation or a spontaneous trip or trying new things that are scary - it is a really attractive quality.