Quotes About Risk

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

what danger is there if you don't think of any?)

As if there were safety in stupidity alone.

We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return—prepared to send back our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms.

A treacherous friend is the most dangerous enemy.

It's good to be scared, it means you still have something to lose

when personal incomes are taxed 50, 60 or 70 percent. People begin to ask themselves why they should work six, eight or nine months of the entire year for the government, and only six, four or three months for themselves and their families. If they lose the whole dollar when they lose, but can keep only a fraction of it when they win, they decide that it is foolish to take risks with their capital.

there is a decisive difference between the loans supplied by private lenders and the loans supplied by a government agency. Each private lender risks his own funds.

a man will put forth greater efforts to save himself from ruin than he will merely to improve his position.

A menudo, incluso hace más provechosa la especulación que el esfuerzo productor.

When a corporation loses a hundred cents of every dollar it loses, and is permitted to keep only fifty-two cents of every dollar it gains, and when it cannot adequately offset its years of losses against its years of gains, its policies are affected. It does not expand its operations, or it expands only those attended with a minimum of risk. People who recognize this situation are deterred from starting new enterprises.

if you are going to be pushed you had better jump

But if we may perish by cracks in things that we don't know.

The image of the presence, whatever it was, waiting there for him to go--this image had not yet been so concrete for his nerves as when he stopped short of the point at which certainty would have come to him. For, with all his resolution, or more exactly with all his dread, he did stop short--he hung back from really seeing. The risk was too great and his fear too definite: it took at this moment an awful specific form.

The more information one has about one's dangers the better.

Fancy me between Scylla and Charybdis.

Jump off. You are a protected individual. Do not fear.

By choosing to live above the ordinary level we create extraordinary problems for ourselves.

There are people who cannot resist the desire to get into a cage with wild beasts and be mangled.

Ni una sola vez habían abierto la puerta que conduce hasta el alma; ni una sola vez se les ocurrió dar un salto a ciegas en la obscuridad.

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience

At any rate, I had not yet come to the end of my rope. I was only flirting with disaster.

Should he risk the great reward of his divine faith for the sake of a single deed of human love?

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.