Quotes About Risk

Decide that you want it more than you're afraid of it

Business is a money game with few rules and a lot of risk.

In this business, by the time you realize you are in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless your running scared all the time, you're gone.

Nuclear power kills far, far fewer people than cars do. For that matter, it kills far fewer people than any fossil fuel.

a 2-degree rise wouldn't simply be 33 percent worse than 1.5; it could be 100 percent worse. Twice as many people would have trouble getting clean water. Corn production in the tropics would go down twice as much.

Money is very seductive…However much you say that you will not fall into the trap of it, you do fall into the trap of it. —Rajat Gupta, former worldwide managing director, McKinsey

You must have the courage to follow an unconventional path.

To a coward, courage always looks like stupidity.

New Rule: Getting up close and personal with sharks doesn't make you a wildlife enthusiast--it makes you dinner. An Austrian tourist wanted to get face-to-face with sharks, so he went diving in waters baited with bloody fish parts. And he got ate. A friend was asked to describe the man. He needed only two words: Good chum.

New Rule: Instead of using their $10 billion atom-smashing Large Hadron Collider to re-create the Big Bang by melting atom parts in temperatures a million times hotter than the sun, scientists should not do that. I'm just sayin' it sounds dangerous. I'm as interested as the next guy in determining the origin of matter, but first couldn't we solve some simple mystery, like why some-detector batteries always die at four a.m.?

You never know when some crazed rodent with cold feet could be running loose in your pants.

I'm resolving to just wing it and see what happens.

BE CAREFUL, OR BE ROADKILL!

Don't look into car headlights and freeze, because you'll either get run over or shot!

One thing I have finally gotten through my thick skull: Anyone looking for love is also looking for trouble.

You can get in just as much trouble by being dumb and innocent as you can by breaking the law.

Be bold if you are going to make an error make a doozy.

The sinners are much more fun.

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.

C++ protects against accident, not against fraud.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

If God exists, not seeking God must be the gravest error imaginable. If one decides to sincerely seek for God and doesn't find God, the lost effort is negligible in comparison to what is at risk in not seeking God in the first place.

We run carelessly over the precipice after having put something in front of us to prevent us seeing it.

If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exsists.