Quotes About Risk

Cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.

He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day. But he who is in battle slain, Can never rise to fight again.

We must beware of needless innovations, especially when guided by logic.

To escape criticism - do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Danger for danger's sake is senseless.

The pitcher that goes too often to the well is broken at last.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

Decide which is the line of conduct that presents the fewest drawbacks and then follow it out as being the best one, because one never finds anything perfectly pure and unmixed, or exempt from danger.

Wisdom consists in being able to distinguish among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful.

The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence.

The Pilgrims didn't have any experience when they landed here. Hell, if experience was that important, we'd never have anybody walking on the moon.

Deliberation often loses a good chance.

There comes a time when you've got to say, "Let's get off our asses and go ..." I have always found that if I move with 75 percent or more of the facts I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.

When you cannot make up your mind between two evenly balanced courses of action, choose the bolder.

No one knows what he can to do until he tries.

If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable ... we must be content to creep along the ground, and can never soar.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.

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

A reasonable probability is the only certainty.

Something must be left to chance; nothing is sure in a sea fight.

The only certainty is that nothing is certain.