Quotes About Risk

sword of Damocles

Trouble is our only defense against boredom.

The more dangerous life is, the better. Scary equals important, right?

Kyle still had a shot. A long shot, but, hey, sometimes the

Careers are defined by four minutes on the ice and lives can change forever, emotionally and financially.

Nothing need be apprehended from this miserable adventurer.

My friends call me Miss Worst Case Scenario.

This golf course, you miss a shot a little bit off-line, it's going to bite you.

I hit big or I miss big.

I see some people stay in one place because it's convenient or it's comfortable. But they're missing out on their passion.

I've been in situations where if I'd been careless I could have been missing some fingers or a hand or something like that, or a very, very bad bleed or whatever.

Unquestionably, the mission in Iraq has become more dangerous and difficult.

As much as the constitutional argument matters to me, what really matters to me is this sort of moral question of can we order somebody to risk their lives about a military mission if we're not willing to debate, vote, and say that the military mission matters?

Making a summer movie is like accepting a mission impossible: your enemies are everywhere, and if you fail, the studio's never heard of you.

With bombs and fires, you get only one mistake.

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Flying is one of the safest jobs in the Army as long as you don't drop out. If you do drop out, you are a dead man, and dropping out means, usually, that you have made a mistake or let go of your grip.

I've got an accountant who's been with me forty years. If he makes a mistake, he dies.

Investors should invest on what they know. The biggest mistake is to invest on what they don't know.

I decided if it was going to be a mistake to come to New York and try and make a career in fashion, then it was going to be my mistake... But the American dream is real. I'm living it.

I thought that ending Glass-Steagall was a mistake.

If you're not making some mistakes, it probably means you're not trying hard enough.

We can't be afraid to make mistakes.

Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.