Quotes About Risk

When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.

When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.

Do you want Columbus to go across the ocean, or do you want to put a message in a bottle and hope that it lands somewhere? I'd rather have actual people be there. Whether they look like Americans or like the inhabitants of some other country, depends on who has the most drive.

If you're an entrepreneur, and you have a choice to go to a place where there are 250 VC firms or somewhere else where there might be one or two, you're gonna go where all the money is.

From my perspective, it's really risk management to ensure that humans have the ability to go somewhere else in case there were to be some huge disaster on Earth.

I knew what could happen to my son if he was sent to the wrong school and got in with the wrong crowd.

It was a kind of siren song that called me out to the front lines.

In future also, we would like to back films that can be considered slightly risky since they don't have song and dance.

One not-to-be-mentioned major said they would sign me if I worked with a team of songwriters to help me finish songs, ha! Of course, in hindsight, I should've done it just to see what that would have been like.

The thing is, I feel like it would defeat the purpose of being a musician if I let any kind of fear of failure affect my songwriting or making an album or whatever.

A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said, for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't. But we do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drownded now and again.

No matter the risks we take, we always consider the end to be too soon, even though in life, more than anything else, quality should be more important than quantity.

One indie film does well, for example a 'Bheja Fry,' that gets money for another 20 indie projects. But as soon as the first 8 projects release and flop, out of the 12 remaining ones, six will never take off, three will remain incomplete and the others will be shelved.

As soon as you become complacent your show gets canceled.

The Internet's kinda in danger of getting heart disease pretty soon, I think. Arteries are getting clogged.

Sooner barbarity than boredom.

If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let's take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky.

For those that invested in Innate, including me, we all were sophisticated investors who were aware of the inherent risk.

There is not necessarily a good reason why a regulator should have to be involved in product design and marketing for rich and sophisticated investors. We recommend that such investors should be able to sign a piece of paper, which allows them to go ahead and buy unregulated products at their own risk.

In equities, you price the risk. As far as debt is concerned, if the markets get more sophisticated where, for the levels of risks that you take, you get the debt returns, we will certainly look at it. It's back to a philosophy of risk-adjusted returns.

I've done a lot of ladder matches in my career and usually you come out a little more sore than you would in a regular match.

In everybody's life, there is love, there is sorrow, there is melancholy. And there might be danger as well.

I'm really sorry, but I'm not prepared to jeopardize my life for the entertainment industry.

The judges are trying to make the sports as safe as possible and I was just sorry they thought it necessary to consider me dangerous.