Quotes About Risk

As the Taliban circled the bazaar in their Toyota pickup trucks, the ice cream is no longer my enemy. Sunita is risking her life for this pleasure. She is sharing it with me. Finally, my being fat is clearly less important than being free. I eat the ice cream.

Boa parte dos taxistas não trazem gente pra nossa rua Falam que podem levar tiro ou acabar morrendo Aí fico pensando nesse caso o que é que eu sou Uma pessoa à prova de balas ou alguém que já morreu.

If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good

Fortuna favet fortibus (fortune favors the brave) -mentioned in The Black Book of Secrets

What is life if not a gamble?

Have stakes, will travel

Ends, ways, means, risk. Strategy is like a three-legged stool, with ends, ways, and means balancing a plane of varying degrees of risk. We create strategy based on known variables and face risk depending on how we use our resources and what the enemy does. We have weapons, we have tools, we have floor plans, we have personnel.

Stewart Granger

sometimes we take chances, sometimes we take pills.

He that is afraid of the devil does not grow rich.

But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.

low interest rates and cheap credit also cause people to act foolishly or greedily ...

You never know when the devil might come calling.

Comfort is the enemy of achievement.

She mentally ran through the new dishes for that evening, including the new jambalaya, which would be daringly made with pasta instead of the traditional rice. It was a risk to make such a drastic change to one of New Orleans's most beloved dishes, but if she managed to pull this off, T&J's would be the talk of the town! She wouldn't be surprised if people came in from as far as Biloxi, or even Jackson, Mississippi, to try her new recipe.

If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.

Ti dirò la sola cosa che ho imparato nella vita: la gente non fa altro che chiudersi in casa a fare le cose che ama di meno.

We're all curious about what might hurt us.

Industrial cereal processing produces acrylamide. Acrylamide is a chemical compound that has been known to cause cancer in animals for many years and was classified as a probable human carcinogen in 1994.

I started skydiving because I loved the idea of freedom.

I've done a lot of things in a business where you're lucky to stay alive, so when the time comes, I'll be happy to pass my knowledge along and help someone else.

working too long for other people can blunt your desire to take risks.

After a lifetime of making money and observing better men and women than I fall by the wayside, I am convinced that fear of failing in the eyes of the world is the single biggest impediment to amassing wealth. Trust me on this.

There is absolutely nothing more likely to dampen the prospects of becoming rich than a nice, fat, regular salary check.