Quotes About Risk

Me dio miedo dejar el laboratorio —dice— pero no tanto como la perspectiva de quedarme en él. Mi consejo es que si estás pensando en dar este tipo de salto, lo mejor es que hagas como un lemming y saltes.»

Instead of standing on the shore and convincing ourselves that the ocean cannot carry us, let us venture onto its waters—just to see.

veces, equivocarse significa simplemente equivocarse. Pero si no estás preparado para equivocarte, nunca se te ocurrirá nada original.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

In the opening paragraph Goldi commits felony breaking and entering. Why does she do it? Why does she risk five to ten in the slammer or death by bear claw?

Marriage is like signing a 356-page contract without knowing what's in it.

In investing, the crowd is wrong much more often than right.

it's a good idea to remember that whenever there is a buy and a seller, somebody is wrong. Make sure it's not you

One of their most famous coups was underwriting a $10 million loan for a growing mail-order house called Sears, Roebuck, headed by Goldman's distant relative. It was the first time a mail-order security had ever been on the market-a calculated risk, but one that paid off.

No professional Wall Street tipster or plausible promoter can turn a sane person into a stock gambler as easily as his next-door neighbor bragging about his winnings. If all men profited by experience, the world would be peopled exclusively by the wise....

When is it safe to invest?' there are two answers ... 1. Never! 2. Always! `Never for' the crowd... `Always' for the reasonable man; for it all depends upon what you call `safe,' in a world peopled by fallible human beings.

If a stock is high enough to be sold, it is high enough to be sold short," was another Sage maxim.

I glanced over at him warily. "Don't start getting any ideas about her. The last time someone took a fancy to Kate, things went very badly for him." "What happened?" "He got shot." "You shot him?" "Well, no, but he did get shot.

Never climb a tree in a long dress," Kate panted, coming up behind me. "I'll remember that," I said.

What have you done?' I whispered. She swallowed, and the guilt in her eyes was extinguished by a flare of defiance. 'This,' she said, 'is my ticket to outer space.'

Crooked cards and straight whiskey, Slow horses and fast women.

You must have love as the core it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go.

Don't be afraid to give up the good for the great.

Do not be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

Packages can provide a way to offer clients incremental access to upgrades. By introducing new classes in a new package, you can give them the same name as the old classes. For example, if I can upgrade org.junit.Assert in org.junit.newandimproved.Assert, then clients need only change the import statements to be using the new class. Changing imports is less risky and intrusive than changing code.

Write contracts for software development that fix time, costs, and quality but call for an ongoing negotiation of the precise scope of the system. Reduce risk by signing a sequence of short contracts instead of one long one.

However, most defects end up costing more than it would have cost to prevent them. Defects are expensive when they occur, both the direct costs of fixing the defects and the indirect costs because of damaged relationships, lost business, and lost development time.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable; be honest and frank anyway.

It is not hard to make money in the market. What is hard to avoid is the alluring temptation to throw your money away on short, get-rich-quick speculative binges. It is an obvious lesson, but one frequently ignored.