Quotes About Risk

A holding company is the people you give your money to while you're being searched.

Net - the biggest word in the language of business.

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

All business proceeds on beliefs, on judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.

A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.

Little boats should keep near shore.

A race preserves its vigour so long as it harbours a real contrast between what has been and what may be, and so long as it is nerved by the vigour to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure, civilization is in full decay.

If Columbus had had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.

Many a man has walked up to the opportunity for which he has long been preparing himself, looked it full in the face, and then begun to get cold feet... when it comes to betting on yourself and your power to do the thing you know you must do or write yourself down a failure, you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.

You don't know what pressure is until you play for $5 with only $2 in your pocket.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by traffic from both sides.

I never liked the middle ground-the most boring place in the world.

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

Fortune favors the audacious.

He who is afraid of every nettle should not piss in the grass.

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery-courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards.

The highest courage is not to be found in the instinctive acts of men who risk their lives to save a friend or slay a foe; the physical fearlessness of a moment or an hour is not to be compared with immolation of months or years for the sake of wisdom or art.

Courage is more than standing for a firm conviction. It includes the risk of questioning that conviction.

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, on the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

Courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.

Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads.

Prudence which degenerates into timidity is very seldom the path to safety.