Quotes About Risk

In avoiding all pain and seeking comfort at all cost, we may be left without intimacy or compassion; in rejecting change and risk we often cheat ourselves of the quest; in denying our suffering we may never know our strength or our greatness.

Was it possible to live so defensively that you never got to live at all?

If you get up to fight a battle, you might lose. But if you choose never to fight, the loss is guaranteed.

Victory requires a fight. But the greatest risk of all is that you won't fight—that you'll allow fear to keep you on the couch, with your talent buried in the ground and all of its multiplying effects dormant and dead.

We're all afraid, Olivia," Henry answered, his voice quiet. "You can't make it through life without it. The trick is figuring out that the thing you need is just on the other side of that fear. The only way you can reach it is by going right through the center of it.

I...should have...risked it." She grasped Alex's hand in both of hers as if she were cupping life-giving water. "Life isn't...meant to be spent...hiding in the corner with your arms huddled over your head, protecting...yourself from anything that might hurt you. Life should be...embraced.

Sometimes you have to break a few rules in life, especially when the stakes are high enough.

That's what I thought I wanted. A nice, safe, uneventful life…Safe and uneventful are just other words for lonely. - Matt Harte

I admit that it is audacious," said Scaramouche. "But at your time of life you should have learnt that in this world nothing succeeds like audacity.

Whilst I'll take any risk that I must, I'll take none that I needn't.

In doing this they are striking at the very foundations of the throne. These fools do not perceive that if that throne falls over, it is they who stand nearest to it who will be crushed.

There is nothing more dangerous than a desperate man who has nothing to loose.

Be brave, be bold, my dear, but do not be too bold. Do not go looking for trouble. It has a way of finding you on its own, soon enough. -Rose

Not taking risks one doesn't understand is often the best form of risk management.

Policy making invariably involves taking measured risks in the face of uncertainty, for one has neither a prior template nor the luxury of indecision.

Finance is not just about lending, it is about recovering loans also.

Should the Governor disappear from public view and not speak for fear of misinterpretation, or should he take the risk in order to discharge his responsibilities?

decision by consensus is inherently conservative.

It involves considerable change, and change is risky. But as India develops, not changing is even riskier. We have to keep what is good about our system, of which there is a tremendous amount, even while acting differently where warranted.

Policy making invariably involves taking measured risks in the face of uncertainty, for one has neither a prior template nor the luxury of indecision. As an aside, that initial

a dollar's worth of physical capital in India would produce 58 times the returns available in the United States. Global financial markets, he argued, could not be so blind as to ignore these enormous differences in returns, even taking into account the greater risk of investing in India.

The bottom line was that the scheme was a measured risk, with a probability that the RBI would lose money, a certainty that the bankers would make money, but also a reasonable chance that the country would be significantly better off.

Everything that is worth winning, is worth loosing as well.

Works of art are indeed always products of having been in danger, of having gone to the very end in an experience, to where man can go no further.