Quotes About Risky

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There were absolutely circumstances where Sallie Mae was working hand-in-hand with for-profit schools and other schools in offering and putting students into risky expensive subprime loans.

Keith 'One Time' Thurman is a dangerous man.

He disdains such cowardly acts as looking in wing mirrors or using his indicators.

Like unmixed wine, the dictatorship had a taste that was intoxicating and perilous.

Judges, like most people, may be divided roughly into four classes: judges with neither head nor heart—they are to be avoided at all costs; judges with head but no heart—they are almost as bad; then judges with heart but no head—risky but better than the first two, and finally, those rare judges who possess both head and a heart. ROBERT TRAVER Anatomy of a Murder (1958) The

That sounds super dangerous! Touch me not — or you will DIE!

If you're the type of investor who has enough time to let somewhat risky stocks trend upward or who has enough money so that a loss won't devastate you financially, then growth stocks are definitely for you.

As Peter Drucker wrote: "In knowledge work . . . the task is not given; it has to be determined. 'What are the expected results from this work?' is . . . the key question in making knowledge workers productive. And it is a question that demands risky decisions. There is usually no right answer; there are choices instead. And results have to be clearly specified, if productivity is to be achieved."*

The investor with a long-term horizon begins with a portfolio composed entirely of risky assets. Then, as the investor's investment horizon contracts, the investor moves assets from high-risk to low-risk positions.

This place is a place, neither safe, nor unsafe.

Still, even idiots get lucky sometimes. I felt lucky tonight. Or maybe just reckless.

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I'm not a crazy Vegas guy. I'm not a gambler.

It didn't really make sense. The ID on the fingerprint could not have come back yet—there was no way it could have worked its way through all the layers of ossified bureaucracy in just a few hours—but as far as I knew that was the only lead. Besides, she would never do something insanely risky without me along to take the hit for her, and cornering a homicidal psycho with a hammer certainly fit in the category of "risky." Of

They were the hopeful. Who were trading homes and family and a thousand years of ancestry for the hard certainty of risky, laborious years ahead of them. Who had the slimmest of chances to take root in a place where their families could prosper, where freedom and money and contentment were, the story went, as common as sunlight and rain.

Insurance firms have always carefully studied real-world data to figure out what, precisely, constitutes a risky activity.

A pack of lemmings looks like a group of rugged individualists compared with Wall Street when it gets a concept in its teeth.

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It's worth noting that the assumption that something can't happen has the potential to make it happen, since people who believe it can't happen will engage in risky behaviour, and thus alter the environment.

The divinization of Man, when one abhors the order of the world as essentially evil, is a risky and self-contradictory venture.

What is the absolute worst place in this Valley one could go? The most insanely suicidal place to be found? The place where only a great fool would venture—and only an insane fool would follow?

This is more dangerous than double dating with Danny Bonaduce on the Kennedy compound.

He sounded oddly calm. "It's risky." My arm is in the mouth of a sphinx that's only a moment from ripping it from the socket. Risky sounds quite safe , Wolfe thought, but he didn't say it. Too many words. "Tell me!" "Work your arm free," Jess said. "Run. Make for the Minotaur. If you can make them fight each other—" Risky wasn't the right word for it. Suicidal was far more on point.