Quotes About Risk

People go to Vegas, and they don't know what to do; here's what you do. You go to the casino in your hotel. On your arrival, you get $100 in quarters. Take that $100 back to your hotel room and stare at it for a long, long time. Why? Because you're never going to see them again. Then you take those quarters to the bathroom and you flush them, one by one by one. And the nice thing about that is that every so often the toilet will back up, and you'll feel like a WINNER!

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is, but let us consider the two possibilities. If you gain, you gain all if you lose you lose nothing. Hesitate not, then, to wager that He is.

Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is.

If you never take risks in life, you'll never see anything new

I may be taking a risk on it, which is alright, because if you never take risks in life, you'll never see anything new.

I watch Stewart. He has the most interesting face. It is beautiful, young, almost childlike, and yet with a power and authority in his features. In another time he would have been a young warrior, a Lost Prince exiled from his kingdom. But he's from this time, this place, so he's just some "at risk" kid who can't find a place for himself in the straight world.

Dating across the color line was just another way of bucking convention. But since my father neither looked nor identified as black, there wasn't much risk of public censure. The women could be daring and modern without being truly radical.

The CEOs of our small giants had all faced the same issue. One way or another, they had to keep their best people engaged and challenged or run the risk of losing them. In most cases, the answer had been a kind of controlled growth that preserved the company's culture while creating new opportunities for employees.

they focus on survival. Some never leave the survival stage. The more fortunate ones move on to the growth stage. Either way, they run the risk of getting caught in what Covey calls "the activity trap," the tendency "in the busy-ness of life to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder of success only to discover it's leaning against the wrong wall.

Change isn't always good. Sometimes changing things is a terrible mistake.

Sometimes you feel foolish, even look foolish, but you do the thing anyway.

Why do you kids say you're experimenting with drugs? You're experimenting with ill health.

A conservative estimate of trailside deaths for 1850 alone is 5,000, meaning that among the optimistic souls departing St. Louis to start a new and better life, one in eleven never made it past the Rockies.

Between 1941 and 1945, maps of Pacific typhoon lanes may as well have been marked "Here Be Dragons.

When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to loose.

When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to loose.

the wider consequences of a strategic decision needs destructive testing, especially by the board.

Risk is essential to an enterprise. If we had full knowledge of the future there would be no risk.

McLain this early in the game? It was a loaded

Trailing 24–23 in the fourth quarter, and backed up on their own 1-yard line, the Patriots were forced to punt—only they didn't! Instead of punting, Belichick instructed long snapper Lonie Paxton to snap the ball out of the end zone. That would give the Broncos two points for the safety and a three-point lead, but the Patriots would be able to punt the ball from their 20-yard line instead of the back of their end zone.

Well, me don't swim too tough so me don't go in the water too deep.

You open your heart knowing that there's a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible. You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that's so real it scares you.

The successful writer takes chances and succeeds. The successful writer embraces the changing world of publishing and uses those changes to their advantage.