Quotes About Risk

It was certainly true that Todd had been a reckless driver. Teenage boys often were, especially when they'd had a few beers. And what teenage boy didn't have a beer now and again? Things happen. Besides, no one knew for sure, and no one would ever know for sure.

Herman Melville said that artists have to take a dive, and either you hit your head on a rock and it splits your skull and you die, or, that blow to your head is so inspiring that you come back up and you do the best work you ever did. But — you have to take the dive. And you do not know what the result will be.

La lotteria è una tassa sulla stupidità

Evelyn : You were actually at Hamunaptra? Rick : Yeah, I was there. Evelyn : You swear? Rick : Every damn day.

If Columbus had an advisory committee, he would probably still be at the dock." Arthur J. Goldberg, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, 1962–1965, United

If Columbus had an advisory committee, he would probably still be at the dock." Arthur J. Goldberg, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, 1962–1965, United States Secretary of Labor, United States Ambassador to

He kissed her, because fuck it, he was probably about to die.

We can't take that step. It's illegal, and more importantly it's bad business.

A good general, Allister was fond of saying, plans in two ways: for an absolute victory and for an absolute defeat. The one enables him to squeeze the last ounce of success out of a triumph; the other keeps a failure from turning into a catastrophe.

Great risks come with great rewards.

By excluding the human factor, aren't we risking the kind of personal detachment from a history that may, heaven forbid, lead us one day to repeat it? And in the end, isn't the human factor the only true difference between us and the enemy we now refer to as "the living dead"?

I don't know if great times make great men, but I know they can kill them.

booby trap.

All positivity all the time. Learn to fly, even if it's in the Hindenburg.

Before he goes into the water, a diver cannot know what he will bring back.

Adventure is what makes life worth living, and the way to have an adventure is to expose yourself to risk.

By diversifying, you become a juggler trying to keep too many balls in the air all at once.

Worry is not a sickness but a sign of health. If you are not worried, you are not risking enough.

Always take your profit too soon.

Of course, [risk] is a two-way street. But look at it this way. As an ordinary tax-hounded, inflation-raddled income earner, carrying much of the rest of the world on your back, you are in pretty sorry financial state anyhow.

To make any kind of gain in life – a gain of wealth, personal stature, whatever you define as "gain" – you must place some of your material and/or emotional capital at risk. You must make a commitment of money, time, love, something. That is the law of the universe.

Stock speculators are always doing that and are always working themselves into frenzies over it. Such a frenzy can cloud one's judgment to a hazardous degree.

It is essential to take risks. Examine the life of any lucky man or woman, and you are all but certain to find that he or she was willing, at some point, to take a risk. Without that willingness, hardly anything interesting is likely to happen to you.

The only mistake is not to risk making one.