Quotes About Risk

You might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb.

You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy.

You can only jump so far until you break your leg. You can only land so hard until something explodes.

I jumped from a height of 45 feet and though I landed on the boxes. I broke my leg.

I landed the role in 'Caddyshack' auditioning, like everybody else. It wasn't a role I thought I'd get, so I had nothing to lose.

I think I coulda landed on a dime. I really do.

It was in the open market that we found Joe DiMaggio with the San Francisco Seals. A bad knee had scared everybody else off DiMaggio. But we risked $25,000 in cash and five players, and landed a star whom I would not sell for $250,000.

I had thought about landing in the Kremlin, but there wasn't enough space.

Before SpaceX, no space company was worth a second meeting.

I'm not usually drawn to memoir - many run the risk of self-aggrandizement or score-settling.

As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, I know that the men and women of our intelligence community put their lives on the line every day, and they do very dangerous work to keep our country safe.

I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That's how I lost my mind.

I'm not really comfortable unless there's some kind of risk - either physical or mental.

For some people, it's best for their mental health to know they have the gene for Huntington's and some time in the future they'll have a problem. But to other people, it would be a disaster.

Feel the fear, and do it anyway. That's the mentality. Even if you're scared, just do it.

Without risk you can't experience life. There have to be risks, physically and mentally, taken by everyone.

Take a very small amount of money, your throwaway money, treat it as if it's already gone, you've mentally set it on fire, and put it in some distribution of a few truly legit layer 1 blockchains.

The Hoff has become larger than life, so I can't do anything small any more. If I mess up, it becomes big no matter what it is, so if I do something positive, it has to be equally big.

I'm not going to play lead guitar in a concert hall full of people, because I'm going to mess up a lot.

The message is risk, really risk. Be yourself. Create.

I remember with my first album, I was so scared of messing it up, of blowing the opportunity, that I blew it.

They don't call it the Wall of Death for nothing. The biggest risk is crashing off the top. That's when it gets really messy.

We want metal to be dangerous again. How cool would that be?

At Amazon, with new initiatives, we don't look at something and say, 'Okay, it needs to hit this certain metric.' Because it's impossible to know whether somebody's going to respond to something really new and innovative.