Quotes About Risk

The truth may hide at your feet. The truth may lie coiled in high grasses. But it still has claws, it still has fangs. Be careful, Captain, where you step.

I, Sergeant Gesler of the 5th squad in the 9th Company of the 8th Legion, swear by the two Lords of Summer, Fener and Treach, that the creature before me is a natural, unaltered Birdshit scorpion – even though I know there's something about it I'm not seeing and I'm about to lose my life's savings on the Sergeants' Wager.

The young were better at making friends. The young had nothing to lose

One who binds risks getting bound in return. I will not walk that path.

There is nothing more dangerous than a man without a sense of humour.

I do not want certainty. In fact, certainty is the one thing I fear the most.

In all great business very large errors are excused or even unperceived, but in definite and local matters small mistakes are punished out of all proportion." This is one reason politicians are risk-averse, and why modern government administration seeks to minimize risk and avoid failure through a mindless bureaucratic process that delivers mostly mediocrity.

Norton Simon had lots of money and believed that the $2 million investment to launch a Halston perfume was more than worth the gamble. 'Of course, it wasn't my two million,' Halston said. 'It was just my name, which is worth a hell of a lot more than two million.

Freon isn't poisonous, Dad." "No. But it will kill you dead, just the same.

Great,' I said. 'Visit exotic Australia. Get bitten by an exotic snake. Die exotically.

Not my job to judge, boy." Baba Yaga filled and lit the pipe again. "But I do observe that its difficult to escape familiar patterns. When you live your life with cruel words, you look for people to give them to you. When you escape and evil stepmother, you take an uncaring bride. When your father throws you out, you love someone who won't love you back. And to keep yourself in cruelty, you're willing to risk head and hands on the mayors side board. Keep the pattern going. Hm.

If William Tyndale was anything, he was audacious—a man emboldened to take great risks in fulfilling his dangerous mission for God.

The first rule in making money is not to lose it.

Superstition, then and now, is not just a threat to the truth. It's also a threat to national security.

Then the man said, 'Lord, I believe,' and he worshiped him" (verses 35–38). The man fell to his knees and began to publicly worship Jesus! He could have been stoned to death on the spot—but he didn't care! His heart responded to the Savior's words with a full belief and total commitment to Jesus as God's anointed one. Without concern that he might die on the same day he had received his sight, he worshiped Jesus.

When risk is a challenge, fear becomes a compass—literally pointing people in the direction they need to go next

To really achieve anything, you have to be able to tolerate and enjoy risk. It has to become a challenge to look forward to. In all fields, to make exceptional discoveries you need risk—you're just never going to have a breakthrough without it.

As children we are taught not to play with fire, not how to play with fire.

This is what the self-help books don't tell you. Fully alive and deeply committed is a risky business. Once you strip away the platitudes, a life of passion and purpose will always cost, as T. S. Eliot reminds us, "Not less than everything.

If you're interested in mastery," says University of Cambridge, England, neuropsychologist Barbara Sahakian, "you have to learn this lesson. To really achieve anything, you have to be able to tolerate and enjoy risk. It has to become a challenge to look forward to. In all fields, to make exceptional discoveries you need risk—you're just never going to have a breakthrough without it.

I always thought having a ring doctor at a boxing match was like having a preacher in a whore house. If a fighter is worried about his health, he's obviously chosen the wrong profession.

but by and large ITS proved that the best security was no security at all.

A horse must be a bit mad to be a good cavalry mount, and its rider must be completely so.

Lucius recalled an ancient Etruscan proverb: "Sit too near the flame and your cloak will catch fire.