Quotes About Risk

Who holds Wayfinder finds good roads, Its master's step is brisk; The Sword of Wisdom lightens loads But adds unto their risk.

Speculation is an effort, probably unsuccessful, to turn a little money into a lot. Investment is an effort, which should be successful, to prevent a lot of money from becoming a little.

The croupier at the roulette table does not claim that he knows something about the order in which the numbers will come up. He just sees to it that the bets are properly paid off and that the house isn't gypped - which is a job requiring competence.

In our moments of sober thought we all realize that booms are bad things, not good. But nearly all of us have a secret hankering for another one. " Another little orgy wouldn't do us any harm," is the feeling that persists both downtown and up.

Admittedly, it is preposterous to suggest that stock speculation is like coin-flipping. I know that there is more skill to stock speculation. What I have never been able to determine is - how much more?

The indignation school of writers never tires of pointing out the millions that are stolen in the Street. But while the millions are being stolen, the billions are being lost. Nothing crooked—just bad luck and bad brains met together in an effort to do something that couldn't be done in the first place.

Advise me, but do not force your opinion on me. I shall decide at my peril and risk; that is enough and for the law to interfere would be tyranny.

Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.

Along the wide straight road he pushed the car well over eighty miles an hour and kept the tachometre needle flickering just below the start of the red band.

Almost all great fortunes are based upon one cracking good idea and the guts to go with it

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Progress always involves risk you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first base.

They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever...and the other one scared me out of my mind.

I'd like to jump out of a plane. I have a fear of heights I'd like to face.

He that seeks trouble never misses.

Honey is sweet but bees sting.

In life we have to size up the chances and calculate the possible risks and our ability to deal with them and then make our plans accordingly.

I demolish my bridges behind me...then there is no choice but to move forward

Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong.

Hope is a rickety craft to trust one's self to. I

Man kann auch in die Höhe fallen, so wie in die Tiefe.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to liver dangerously.

For believe me! - the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships into uncharted seas!… Soon the age will be past when you could be content to live hidden in forests like shy deer!

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.