Quotes About Risk

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

I remember that I'm invisible and walk softly so as not awake the sleeping ones. Sometimes it is best not to awaken them; there are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.

If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy.

One way to end up with $1 million is to start with $2 million and use technical analysis.

You can never predict when that unknown torpedo will come out of the dark and smash the price of a stock.

that plane isn't going to make it

Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.

There is hope in extravagance, there is none in routine.

Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

There is always safety in valor

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

But inflation or deflation can be forecast to some extent. The real risks are those that lie hidden beneath the veneer of "business as usual.

How naive she must be to think that life is so safe and predictable that you can survive without some level of independence and autonomy.

If you screw things up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass.

The collective value of a typical venture capital portfolio will go down before it goes up—the pattern is called the J curve—because the companies that are not going to survive die before the best performers begin to shine and pull the value of the portfolio up with them. That,

Every man dies, not every man really lives

I'm not trying to be noble. I'm afraid. And the idea of having more love than I've ever had-- and knowing I might never have it again-- that scares me worse than anything.

There's a time to be brave and a time to cave...If you know something is the right thing to do, even if you're scared, do it anyway. But if doing it puts you in immediate danger run away fast. I trust you to know the difference.

Caffeine seems innocuous, but a single coffee bean can kill a mouse.