Quotes About Risk

The challenge is that the day before something is truly a breakthrough, it's a crazy idea. And crazy ideas are very risky to attempt.

To be truly free, you should be ready to risk everything for freedom.

In July of 2010, I lost my finance job in Chicago. Instead of updating my resume and looking for a similar job, I decided to forget about money and have a go at something I truly enjoyed. I'd purchased a semi-professional camera earlier that year and spent my free time taking photos in downtown Chicago.

If you are working in a publicly subsidized building, then you have a responsibility to deliver truly interesting, risky, innovative, even provocative work. Work that speaks to your audience in many resonant ways. The priority is less about the financial rewards.

If there's a fire, I want to be there. Maybe because in being so close to death, I think I understand what it means to be truly alive.

If America is truly Israel's greatest ally, we should not be asking it to put its citizens and future at risk by forcing the establishment of a hostile Palestinian state as the only option.

If you think the country is at risk of imploding due to cancel culture, lack of border control, horrific foreign policy decisions going back decades, and bowing down to China - and many of us do - then absolutely a Trump speech is a breath of comforting and soothing fresh air.

Donald Trump is kind of a riverboat gamble. He won the Illinois primary; in this case, we have seen the Republican vote up and the Democratic vote down, so it looks like it's a net benefit.

The challenge for capitalism is that the things that breed trust also breed the environment for fraud.

No one is going to stick their head out of the trenches for someone they don't respect or trust. You can get shot doing that.

Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust.

Trust with risk is better than unchecked government power.

Trust me: it's cool to invest.

Maybe if I really believe in me, trust me without any calculated plan, who knows what will happen?

Every time my manager approached big network executives or even cable, they told him I was too dangerous. They couldn't trust me.

At the end of the day, having a partner in crime for life is so amazing and special, when it's real and genuine, that it's worth taking the risk. And you are going to get hurt; trust me - I know! I've been hurt a couple times - maybe more than a couple times. But you gotta pick yourself back up and give it another chance.

You no longer can say that inside a company everything is trusted because you could bring in a contaminated device. And it's the same thing with data, because so much is no longer stored inside a company.

I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware.

Trusting the world is a risk, while not trusting it is a guarantee you'll be left with nothing.

We're risking the future of the net. People are already losing their trust. Once you get burned once - somebody steals your credit card, or makes a purchase on your account - people tend to stay away from online commerce and from trusting online services.

Investors need to understand the risk of individual exchanges before trusting their funds with them.

There's definitely been moments in my life, even recently, where I've taken chances or spoken up about something where I don't know how it's gonna go, but it is true, or it is my truth. That's kind of that trusting life.

I think trusting people is a problem for anyone with an existing audience who wants to do another thing.

We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.