Quotes About Risk

Nem sempre há segurança nos números, e às vezes as circunstâncias influem muitas nas ações dos homens.

Only a fool would cross a night traveler.

Life is all about risks, taking chances. It doesn't matter how safe and comfortable you want things to be. They never are. - Brooke Hart

Burning a bridge, as any tactician will tell you, sometimes saves more than it costs. I

A couple of times I've been called on to do things–jobs or whatever–where I've felt, Maybe I'm not quite ready. Maybe it's a little early for this to happen to me. But the rules are so ingrained. "Say yes, and you'll figure it out afterward" has helped me to be more adventurous. It has definitely helped me be less afraid. —Tina Fey comedian and writer

stopped for a moment to talk with the few girls who called out to her. The refuge's lead adolescent psychologist, Hannah Smith, had decreed that all doors would remain open during certain hours though the kids were allowed privacy, too. The risk of harming themselves was

A firefighter's job is hours of boredom, seconds of terror.

People in love always make fools of themselves.

preferring to live in the dusty ashes of what he'd once been than to risk the flames

an adage about the fire department: A firefighter's job is hours of boredom, seconds of terror.

I wasn't very good at the bike thing. Really, it was just dangerous to trust two skinny little wheels and spindly brakes with the considerably uncoordinated woman that is me.

No one knows how to gamble and win, that's why they call it gambling.

I often think, why did I let her in? Didn't I know she was bad? And I did, of course I did, but I also knew that I couldn't keep that door shut all my life, just because it was dangerous, just because there was a chance of getting hurt.

There are times when the law jeopardizes those who obey it.

The death rate for people who play it safe and for people who live boldly is the same: 100%

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. - Les Brown

The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something. - Seth Godin

Do one thing every day that scares you. - Eleanor Roosevelt

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. - Albert Einstein

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. - Robert F. Kennedy

The death rate for people who play it safe and for people who live boldly is the same: 100% - Patti Digh By

The death rate for people who play it safe and for people who live boldly is the same: 100% - Patti Digh

You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine. - Flip Wilson

In the financial world, risk translates to uncertainty. It's measured by "standard deviation from the norm" -- in other words, it's measured by how much the returns swing up and down. Says King, "Most individuals measure risk as their chance of loss, but we measure risk by the variability of returns.