Quotes About Risk

There is a percentage of people who want to be a little bit outside their comfort zone and I am one of them, someone who lives on the edge.

The larger the deductible you choose, the less insurance you are buying. Insurers want to sell insurance.

For the most part, the American film market has become very corporatised, even independent film to a degree, and because of the corporate management mentality, they want to take the safe way.

I was terrified of LSD. I don't want to get arrested.

And let me say this as a politician I can promise you this, political leaders will never take risks if the people do not push them to take some risks. You must create the change that you want to see.

A lot of people are afraid to succeed and don't want to fail but if you don't attempt, aren't you already failing in the same spot?

When raising money, you want to look through the lens of 'What happens when things go wrong?'

A lot of people simply don't realize their potential because they're just so risk adverse. They just don't want to take the risk.

People want to catch a buzz. That is why drugs are illegal, yet people still try to get their hands on them no matter what the consequence. Drugs make us happy, they may not be healthy.

Playing Etta James in the movie 'Cadillac Records' really changed me. It was a darker character, and I realized that if anything is too comfortable, I want to run from it. It's no fun being safe.

If you're involved in an accident and you're at fault $500,000 may not be enough. Do you really want to lose your house because you failed to spend an extra couple of hundred bucks?

Being pregnant, makes me want to do the wildest things

I used to want to gamble, too, until I was 20 and could actually go to a casino. Then I wasn't so crazy about the attitude.

As an actor you appreciate the security of a job. But I don't ever want to get too comfortable.

I never had a plan. I have to say, I'm very shocked when people start a company and say, 'In five years I want to launch a perfume, or in 10 years I want to have this.' How can you know?

My husband's the first one to say, "This is not the end of the world." We're doing what we want to do - what we have chosen to do - and we know the risks involved.

Everybody wants to make something they think is a surefire winner, though nobody knows what a surefire winner is, in my opinion.

Drive, ego and cocksureness are all essential elements in terms of getting exactly what you want but losing everything you've got.

To be brutally honest, it's simple economics. If they want to come into cycling, sponsors need to know the team they are funding is clean, otherwise the risk is just too great.

The thing about being on a long-running series is that you get to know all the stunt men and the stunt coordinators, and they let you pretty much do everything you want, as long as they trust you.

Sometimes, if you really want to try something original, you step a little too far out of bounds. I mean, there's a market force that kind of unconsciously keeps you in line a little bit.

That was interesting, riding in the trunk," Milo said, "but I wouldn't want to do it again.

One misconception is that entrepreneurs love risk. Actually, we all want things to go as we expect. What you need is a blind optimism and a tolerance for uncertainty.

The problem - when you cast your net that wide - is you inevitably catch something you don't want to catch.