Quotes About Risk

You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing.

There is always the temptation in life to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for years on end. It is all so self-conscious, so apparently moral…. I won't have it. The world is wilder than that in all directions, more dangerous … more extravagant and bright. We are making hay when we should be making whoopee; we are raising tomatoes when we should be raising Cain, or Lazarus.

If you have a childlike relationship with God," I said, "you have nothing to fear in death. Death is not the big, scary, overwhelming enemy that our culture has made it out to be. Until we get past our fear of death, we will be prevented from taking risks in life.

You can't live the story of your life properly without the occasional addition of a little sudden drama.

In fact, being old and decrepit makes you an easy target—especially if you're addicted to opium!

Well, even if we lose our money, we'll have a company. For once in our lives, we'll have a company.

But we're assassins: when we make mistakes, people live

You're not desperate until you've opened all the doors. T-A-L-T-O-S.

Gambling isn't fun; winning is fun.

One reason I'm still around to tell you these stories is because when I'm doing big things that are crazy, I try to play it safe with as much of the little stuff as I can. It's worked so far, right? Of course, "It's worked so far, right?" do pretty well as last words, so let's not get cocky about it.

True heroics must be carefully planned - and strenuously avoided.

Playing the pick four with an inadequate bankroll is worse than never playing the bet at all.

Boxing several favorites in a race is a concession that you have no opinion of any value

most racetrack bettors spend far more time thinking about who will win a race than on how to bet a race.

A really important lesson in investing is that being either too far in front or too far behind is when you get hurt, whereas being right at the edge of the wave is where the money is made. And our job is not to be right, but to make money.

If we are to live,' Rake went on, 'we must take risks. Else our lives become deaths in all but name. There is no struggle too vast, no odds too overwhelming, for even should we fail - should we fall - we will know that we have lived.

If we are to live ... we must take risks. Else our lives become deaths in all but name. There is no struggle too vast, no odds too overwhelming, for even should we fail - should we fall - we will know that we have lived.

I had a depressed skull fracture. A few pieces of bone went in quite deep; that was the biggest danger.

I haven't gone sky diving yet and I want to do that, real bad. I love adrenaline and going fast.

I fell from the sky. I'm a parachutist, and I missed my mark.

I ski, I snowboard, I've started to get into skydiving a little bit. I'm a little bit of a thrill-seeker.

I started skydiving because I loved the idea of freedom.

The craziest thing I've done getting over love is skydiving. I had a really upsetting breakup. When I broke up with my boyfriend I needed to like do something different and so I actually went skydiving to turn over a new page.

People go fishing and hunting and playing basketball and hiking and skydiving and all kinds of things that can hurt you seriously, and they don't have to stop doing that when they get older.