Quotes About Exposure

The gains from size are visible but the risks are hidden

Luckily, I had some skin in the game for my opinions

The biotech company seemed to follow implicitly, though not explicitly, Louis Pasteur's adage about creating luck by sheer exposure. "Luck favors the prepared," Pasteur said, and, like all great discoverers, he knew something about accidental discoveries. The best way to get maximal exposure is to keep researching. Collect opportunities—on that, later.

The effect of the leverage is that a small loss would be compounded and would wipe him out.

And as a risk taker, only time counts—for I could fool my accountant with steady earnings with a lot of hidden risk, but time will eventually reveal them.

the longer these animals can go without encountering the rare event, the more vulnerable they will be to it.

The hidden risk transfer is not limited to bankers and corporations.

skin in the game is necessary to understand the world.

Some become antifragile at the expense of others by getting the upside (or gains) from volatility, variations, and disorder and exposing others to the downside risks of losses or harm. And such antifragility-at-the-cost-of-fragility-of-others is hidden

Remember that positive Black Swans have a necessary first step: you need to be exposed to them.

by exposing an idea in raw form, allows it to be judged by the public.

Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them.

exposed to a major blowup without being aware of it

as reduced exposure is one of the causes behind such allergies).

exposure is more important than knowledge;

Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world , individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever. (Wakefield)

The horrible ugliness of this exposure of a sick and guilty heart to the very eye that would gloat over it!

The shame lay in the commission of the sin, and not in the showing of it forth.

And the shame!--the indelicacy!--the horrible ugliness of this exposure of a sick and guilty heart to the very eye that would gloat over it!

Of course, the politicians, dictators, and warmongers weren't happy, but their voices, which had always seemed so loud and intimidating, were suddenly insignificant. The emperor not only had no clothes, turns out he had no testicles either. The

Was I to blame for bringing Brew out of his shell and exposing him to all the toxic things the rest of us carry in our souls?

The emperor not only had no clothes—turns out he had no testicles either.

The blankets had fallen off and I stared down at her white back, the shoulder blades sticking out as if they wanted to grow into wings, poke through that skin. Little blades. She was helpless.

Our source is private. So are your parts but you can expose them.