Quotes About Risk

Just drive down that road until you get blown up.

The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.

The runner who is in peak condition is only a razor's edge from catastrophe.

Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown.

It's not whether you're right or wrong that's important, but how much money you make when you're right and how much you lose when you're wrong.

Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.

Yes. I never claimed credit for it. I was involved in the process. As coach, I said to him that this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, the risk-reward relationship is extremely favorable, and therefore we should play it on a larger scale than normal. And he took my advice.

What is there to say? Risk taking is painful. Either you are willing to bear the pain yourself or you try to pass it on to others. Anyone who is in a risk taking business but cannot face the consequences is no good.

The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can be rapidly absorbed by fictions, and thus the cry in the poem may come to sound louder, more urgent, more real than the cry in the street outside. The death in the novel may move us more potently than the death in the next room. Thus there may be a covert, betraying link between the cultivation of aesthetic response and the potential of personal inhumanity.

Sharing is an act of trust, for ridicule is an ever-present risk on the Internet today.

I think war is a dangerous place.

the basic principle of capitalism: that the penalties (losses) no less than the rewards (profits) of risk taking shall go to those who embark on a productive venture.

Generally, most cities across the US have become unsafe due to petty thieves, daytime attacks, and night attacks.

Hope is a risk that must be run.

Void fascinates those who daren't look into it. They throw themselves in, for fear of falling.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isnt a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

There are three roads to ruin women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.

Why would I want to take a chance on being hurt agan?" She asked. "Because you're not over me," he said. "Any more than I'm over you.

I think that life is a bit like a biscuit that you only get one bite at. The best thing is to just go for it. If you feel an inclination for something, just go for it. Life is too short to muck about doubting yourself. It's better to try and just shore yourself up with some sort of confidence. And get on with it!

In my experience it is always the most innocent-looking creatures that can cause you the worst damage.

It looked immensely sure of itself as it lay there, flamboyant, on the sand, and immensely dangerous, too.

This is good eating,' whispered Taki to my surprise, for the fish, if anything, looked highly poisonous.

Botox is so effective that common sense and experience are crucial when using it. For all users, including the most knowledgeable and best intentioned, there is always the risk of an imbalance of one side compared with the other or early recovery of one side.

15 to 20 minutes is enough—and rehydrate with fluids afterward. Taking a sauna even once a month was found to lower heart disease risk.