Quotes About Risk

If you don't have questions about a product's risks, then there's no reason to test. If you have at least one such question, then ask: Will these tests cost more to execute than their answers will be worth?

Good testing involves balancing the need to mitigate risk against the risk of trying to gather too much information.

There's never an easy answer to the question "Should we do more testing?" because information can guide risk reduction, but doesn't necessarily do so.

Effective leaders often have to act even when they don't understand all possible factors

Brave? Or stupid?" Roger shrugged. "I've never been quite sure where brave stopped and stupid began, myself.

Adventure is something that happens to someone else. When it's happening to you, it's only trouble.

No wonder simple men have always had their gods dwell in the high places. For as soon as a man lets his eye drop from the heavens to the horizon, he risks setting it on some scene of desolation.

He did not turn. Embracing his sister, he stepped off the bank, onto the ice. He walked out into the centre, where the ice was thin. His sister's head lay on his shoulder. They stood there for a moment, as the ice groaned and cracked. Then it gave way.

Nothing illegal. Just the business itself—racing horses before they should even be ridden, wrecking their bones before they've finished growing.

Men are always averse to enterprises in which they foresee difficulties.

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

If you lend you either lose the money or gain an enemy.

I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No, where it is dangerous to say No.

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

The effect of liberty on individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

It is not good to wake a sleeping lion.

I wanted to marry her when I saw the moonlight shining on the barrel of her father's shotgun.

I'm so happy to be rich, I'm willing to take all the consequences.

Always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible.

Necessity makes even the timid brave.

When your neighbor's house is afire your own property is at stake.

He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth.

Time is an avid gambler who has no need to cheat to win every time.

Every problem in your life goes away in front of a bull because this problem, the bull, is bigger than all other problems. Of course, I have fear, but it is fear that I will fail the responsibility I have taken on in front of all those people-not fear of the bull.