Quotes About Risk

Am I getting braver, or just getting accustomed to being terrified?

Messin with me, is like wearing cheese underwear down rat alley. Ollie Chandler in Deception

And then there is the most dangerous risk of all - the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.

when trying to make a decision, I often think of the worst-case scenario. I call it "The Eaten By Wolves Factor." If I do something, what's the most terrible thing that could happen? Would I be eaten by wolves?

Another way to be prepared is to think negatively.

I don't trust Santa Barbara as far as I can spit. I am afraid that if I went back there, it's possible that I could be run through their system, their judicial system, and wind up in some county jail where I could be killed and I'm not gonna take that chance.

I think if you're standing on thin ice anyway, why not dance?

The desire to live is a political decision. Who wants a world where the guarantee of freedom from starvation means the risk of death from boredom?

All human activity suddenly seemed to me composed of such sport: We each chose the game we thought would yield the most for us and our own. We gambled, gambled selfishly, gambled more than we could afford, the odds staggeringly stacked in somebody else's favor.

Embrace probability. Only mathematicians and fools have a tendency to embellish certainty.

I tried gambling and it never paid off, women make you suffer, and greed has no end...

The tallest blade of grass is the surest to be cut.

If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go in business because we'd be cynical: "It's gonna go wrong." Or "She's going to hurt me." Or,"I've had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore . . ." Well, that's nonsense. You're going to miss life. You've got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down.

I think that the first thing is you should have a strategic asset allocation mix that assumes that you don't know what the future is going to hold.

If you believe in something, you've got to be in it to the ends of your toes. Taking reasonable risks in part of the challenge, It's the fun.

Achievement must be made against the possibility of failure, against the risk of defeat. It is no achievement to walk a tightrope laid flat on the floor. Where there is no risk, there can be no pride in achievement and, consequently, no happiness. The only way we can advance is by going forward, individually and collectively, in the spirit of the pioneer. We must take the risks involved in our free enterprise system. This is the only way in the world to economic freedom. There is no other way.

Achievement must be made against the possibility of failure, against the risk of defeat. It is no achievement to walk a tightrope laid flat on the floor. Where there is no risk, there can be no pride in achievement and, consequently, no happiness.

While I probably should have mentioned that you shouldn't try this in a real moving car (but then I assume you have already mastered the rule that you shouldn't drive with your eyes closed), that's not really the key problem here.

Deja eso, chico, cuando no has apostado todos los caballos parecen el mismo.

Sueño que estoy jugando al póker. Nunca he jugado al póker, así que por supuesto pierdo.

Sabes que todo lo mejor vendrá con los cambios pero tienes miedo al cerrar la puerta porque ya habías aprendido a manejar las antiguas desgracias, suele pasar, no es nada extraño, un héroe sin miedo es un héroe muerto.

Un dragón al que se le ve el final de la cola no es un dragón demasiado peligroso, y un tren de diez vagones puede pasarte por encima pero no puede estar pasándote por encima toda la vida.

A que no saltas desde la rama. - No. Mi hermano era un genio evitando desafios".

It's so important to step outside your comfort zone because that's usually when you learn best. I think it's really important that you do things like that for yourself – no adult with you, just you and your own self-belief. Sadly, I think many parents would be too afraid to let their children make a journey like that these days. Having