Quotes About Risk

On my job I end up jumping out of planes. Last week I got in an 18-wheeler and drove down a runway onto a skid track. The week before that they put me in a car and sunk me to the bottom of a lake to see if I could escape without an oxygen tank.

I took Al Unser out on a Hobie the day before he became the first auto racer to go 200 mph around a closed-circuit track. We were only going about 18 mph, and you should have seen him hanging on for dear life.

I was learning to track rhinoceroses in Africa and tracked right up on an animal that really I thought was going to kill me.

Hearing 'no' a lot of times usually tells you either you're crazy or you're on the right track, and you don't know which one it is until you finally launch.

I almost always recommend investors get fully invested, since it's better to put your money to work than to let it simply track the rate of inflation.

Ultimately the clothing company is a large investment on my part, and I'm taking a huge gamble. But having a focus away from the track is good for you.

Luxembourg has a track record of being successful when it takes risks. You need to take on risks to be successful.

No actor has 100 percent track record.

Racing is a dangerous sport, but weve worked very hard to make it safer. We always have, the drivers, the teams, the governing bodies, the tracks.

Who else is putting seven figures down for unreleased rap tracks?

I'd say the late 70s were probably pretty cool. Obviously the cars weren't safe and the tracks weren't safe and all that stuff, but I think back then it was more about the driver.

An all-out trade war with China would be damaging to Disney's business and to business in general. It's something I think we have to be very careful about.

Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it's a kind of risky trade.

Today, even small entities that trade complex instruments or are granted sufficient leverage can threaten the global financial system.

Main Street investors, who cannot trade credit default swaps, should not be tempted to trade an instrument with the same risk profile simply because it has been given a different name.

Why would I stand there and trade punches and try to knock out George Foreman?

An intensification of trade or geopolitical tensions - with negative repercussions for global growth and risk appetite - could affect economies that are highly dependent on foreign demand or external financing.

A threat to our freedom is a threat to our freedom, whether from a terrorist or from a trade deal.

Any country that grants asylum to Snowden risks retaliation from the United States, including diplomatic isolation and costly trade sanctions. Several don't seem to care.

When you can't lend or trade - and you can't invest with the leverage that juiced returns to support seven- and eight-figure bonuses - how exactly are you going to make money?

You take the noise and put it in data information knowledge, and you get insight from that knowledge. How to execute the trade, the timing, sizing, long, short, and then you risk manage it.

The options and futures traded on exchanges are derivatives contracts.

Derivatives in and of themselves are not evil. There's nothing evil about how they're traded, how they're accounted for, and how they're financed, like any other financial instrument, if done properly.

There are positives and negatives to publicly traded and private companies.