Quotes About Uncertainty

I'm not in the business of reading tea leaves. I don't have a crystal ball.

There isn't a single business where anybody feels secure.

Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.

The more unpredictable the world is the more we rely on predictions.

By the time I was ready for college, I didn't know what I wanted to do. I think I secretly wanted a show business career, but I was suppressing it.

I want to go out at the top, but the secret is knowing when you're at the top, it's so difficult in this business, your career fluctuates all the time, up and down, like a pair of trousers.

No one has the right to not assume that the business cycle will turn! Every five years or so, you have got to assume that something bad will happen.

And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business.

I went through a period of pulling away from everything - acting, people - not sure if I would ever have a voice in this business.

It's a roll of the dice in the movie business. I mean, every single movie is a roll of the dice. Any movie on paper could look like it's going to be fantastic. You know what I mean?

I guess show business is a lot like baseball: "Wait until next year!" You just never know. Some of the shittiest shows I've ever seen run forever, and some of the best things never get a chance.

You never quite know in business if what you are doing is the right or the wrong thing. Unfortunately, by the time you know the answer, someone has beaten you to it and you are out of business.

I get the sense many people are unsure about their digital media allocation. Even those who believe they are progressive in their thinking wonder if they have got it right.

The business of the philosopher is well done if he succeeds in raising genuine doubt.

My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.

There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of.

Either you're going to shoot us or you're not. The ball always lands on red or black, never both.

Because truly big companies don't like taking gambles on small people ~unless it is a guaranteed return.

It is not the crook in modern business that we fear but the honest man who does not know what he is doing.

A 99% Value-at-Risk calculation does not evaluate what happens in the last one percent... This is like an airbag that works all the time, except when you have a car accident.

I will continue to get behind the wheel of a racing car as long as I am able. But that could all end tomorrow.

There is always a chance of failure, of producing something totally unnecessary. But I guess that chance of failure is what makes tightrope walking, race-car driving.

So much depends upon a blue car splattered with mud speeding down the road.

A risk is a chance you take; if it fails you can recover. A gamble is a chance taken; if it fails, recovery is impossible.