Quotes About Risk

So fear helps me from making mistakes, but I make lot of mistakes.

If you have to make mistakes, make them good and big, don't be middling if you can help it.

We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes.

You always risk people misunderstanding you when you say anything.

I seek as much as I can to mitigate risk.

I don't like to work for politicians because I hate to work on anything that you can't give back if it doesn't work. I sell products. I do a commercial for, say, Meow Mix, and you don't like it, you get your money back. You can return it. Politicians, you can't return. You're with them for four more years. And that's scary.

I think that's kind of the perfect mix, where you do something that you're not sure about, you feel like you're taking a risk, and then you turn around and look at the artists that you're collaborating with and you can read the expression on their face if they like it or they hate it.

When you are a race driver you see things in the race driver mode.

I like the mode of business of aviation. It's a risky business with difficulties which you can fill with innovative ideas and different things.

A bank needs models to measure risk. The problem, however, is that any one bank can measure its risk, but it also has to know what the risk taken by other banks in the system happens to be at any particular moment.

So many of the things I talk about in 'Reality Hunger' seem to be the things that 'The Thing About Life' does - things like risk, contradiction, compression, mixing modes of attack from the memoristic gesture to data-crunching.

Every mission has life-or-death moments.

These few dollars you lose here today are going to buy you stories to tell your children and great-grandchildren. This could be one of the big moments in your life; don't make it your last!

If you don't have those moments where you go too far, then you're probably not going far enough.

There is no such thing as a low risk lap in Monaco. It doesn't exist if you want to be fast, because you have to be on the limit.

Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.

I'd rather lose my own money than someone else's.

I have always been afraid of banks.

Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.

No matter how much money you have, you can lose it.

It's such a risk to write a novel that it's easy to become conservative - you're spending what would be, for me, a couple of years of my life on a single idea. Which is maybe one of the reasons I write stories - if it doesn't work, you've only lost a month.

We know that chronic loneliness has consequences. It certainly depresses our mood. And in terms of our health, people who struggle with loneliness also have an increased risk for cardiovascular disease, dementia, depression, and anxiety. Loneliness is also associated with a shorter lifespan.

Once in a blue moon, an entire industry is a good short.

The bad boy: always more fun.