Quotes About Risk

You don't want to make a living or habit out of trying to solve your problems with high-price pitching free agents because over the long run, there's so much risk involved that you really can hamstring your organization.

Always, when I do a play, there's got to be an equation of risks and potential failure. When you're working on a new play, it's like, 'How the hell do I do this, and do we have the time?' All of these huge questions engage, hopefully, the smartest part of me. And then when you're doing a revival, I went, 'Well, somebody's already solved it.'

We think it would be safer if the Bank of England had responsibility for solvency regulation of UK-based banks, as well as having an overall duty to keep the system solvent. Otherwise, there could be dangerous delays if a banking crisis did hit.

First, I do not think there is any silver bullet to solving the technology side of the security equation.

Somalia is very dangerous, and no one knows that better than I.

I think probably the scaredest I've ever been was in Somalia. I arrived there when the episode that became known as 'Black Hawk Down' was still taking place. The Americans were still pinned down under fire. And everybody else was basically going the other way, and I was the only one putting my hand up for a flight in.

When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.

Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.

Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.

Some people need safety nets. Some people need two safety nets. I've grown up with no safety nets around me.

L.A. gives me a lot. L.A. is a city of extremes. People come here from all over the world that have these, like, giant ideas, and they put everything into it. And some people just fall flat on their face, and some people, you know, shoot like a rocket.

Some things never change - there will be another crisis, and its impact will be felt by the financial markets.

Well, I can fake my way around some things, but I don't think I would be good at betting.

You put some things out there. Some work, some don't, and then one really takes off, and that pays for your failures. Then you go on to the next one.

I've done some things I've been scared to see. But you can kind of feel when you've got a hit on your hands.

Somebody who doesn't care if they live or die is the most dangerous human being on earth.

I'm not a professional. Yet somehow, I manage to get away with it.

There's a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be good politically or not. I simply don't.

I think making a great action movie is one of the hardest cinematic endeavors. By definition, smart characters avoid action. Smart people don't go down dark alleys, but if you're making an action movie and you want to have an action sequence, somehow you have to get that character into that dangerous situation.

I'm hesitant anytime someone puts a contract in front of me that has two-year options.

If I stay in academia, I might end up going someplace random.

I'll take my chances against your fickle heart if it means it's mine.

Entrepreneurship is an art, you do it because you love it.

Want to go to West Virginia and risk life and limb with me?"Zane smirked and gave a single nod. "Sounds like fun.