Risk Quotes

There's never any great risk as long as you have money.

The ragamuffin gospel says we can't lose, because we have nothing to lose.

Brennan Manning

...I don't want security - to be self-assured - I want to risk my heart in making your portrait and be paid the wages of your devotion...

It is impossible to be truly artistic without the risk of offending someone somewhere.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

People play small for lots of reasons, but at the core of them all is fear. Playing small means playing safe—avoiding risk, failure, criticism, and the list goes on. But just imagine how incredibly different the world would be if everyone committed to playing big—taking on audacious goals, trying to make a meaningful difference, being all they could possibly be.

He's a conundrum- and there's still a piece missing from the puzzle." Whatever that piece was, there was a part of me telling me not to get involved- that it was too much to handle. That you shouldn't go out on a limb unless you're absolutely sure the limb can support your weight.

Neal Shusterman

Do you still insist on telling the truth even though you know that it could destroy this world?

Toba Beta

Any way, is better than no way at all.

Anthony Liccione

A risk is a risk because it's avoidable.

Erica Bauermeister

Leaders know that the fruit of life is out on a limb.

...the ratings agencies' problem was in being unable or uninterested in appreciating the distinction between risk and uncertainty.

Your “everybody” probably represents even a smaller proportion of the population than your Rolodex. Psychologists have documented that our typical everybody— to which they refer as the “generalized other”—is usually a collection of about five or six people.

When there's nothing left to save, there's nothing left to lose.

Risks? I have lived with the prospect of assassination for years. What risks? All men die, rich and poor alike. But if I am to die, then let it be while I fight, not like some bullock in a pen waiting for the ax to fall.

Come now and let us go and risk our lives unnecessarily. For if they have got any value at all it is this that they gave got none. Frei lebt wer sterben kann.

Life Insurance is a mitigation to the risk of your lifeFinancial Freedom is a mitigation to the risk of living your life !!Choice has always been yours.

Paul Buchheit: I'm suddenly reminded that, for a while, I asked people if they were playing Russian Roulette with a gun with a billion barrels (or some huge number, so in other words, some low probability that they would actually be killed), how much would they have to be paid to play one round? A lot of people were almost offended by the question and they'd say, "I wouldn't do it at any price." But, of course, we do that everyday. They drive to work in cars to earn money and they are taking risks all the time, but they don't like to acknowledge that they are taking risks. They want to pretend that everything is risk-free.

Jessica Livingston

Didn't anyone ever teach you that it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission?

The greatest risk is not taking one.

Tim Fargo

One sticking point was that Jobs wanted his payout to be in cash. Amelio insisted that he needed to "have skin in the game" and take the payout in stock that he would agree to hold for at least a year.

Walter Isaacson

Without risk in our lives, we’re scarcely better than machines ourselves.

Alastair Reynolds

Ryan-chasers have a life wish. They live life to the fullest because they are willing to look foolish.

Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.

Well, that is what you risk when you fall in love. You risk losing your dignity.

At its strongest and wildest and most authentic, love is a demon. It is a religion, a high-risk adventure, an act of heroism. Love is ecstasy and injury, transcendence and danger, altruism and excess. In many ways, it is a divine madness.

Cristina Nehring

What we did, what every president since Washington has done, was provide a measured, appropriate response, in direct relation to a realistic threat assessment.

Sometimes you need to take the chance and risk it all. Everything might come to an abrupt end or lead to a prosperous beginning either way you would have got your answers, answers you happened to seek which will only be given to you when you ask for them, when you speak.

Chirag Tulsiani

The only crime of the Government is that it governs. The unpardonable sin of the supreme power is that it is supreme. I do not curse you for being cruel. I do not curse you (though I might) for being kind. I curse you for being safe!

G.K. Chesterton

A historian is a risk-terrified prophet.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You would be derailing your life voluntarily out of fear that it might become ruined by chance. Or you could pick up and move on. Those were the only choices.

The willingness to show up changes us, It makes us a little braver each time.

Just remember, you never know what's possible until you risk finding out.

Why would we need to experience the Comforter if our lives are already comfortable?

How do I get past my fears? Make a life for myself? Risk loving someone? When death is all that waits for you, what's the point in trying to have a life?

Risk is what you control and fortune is really all about risk. Bottom Line: Fortune comes from big money bets on very low probability events

Ziad K. Abdelnour

Love always requires courage and involves risk.

Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.

Mountaineers are one of the few groups to celebrate before the finish line. More mountaineers die on the descent than on the ascent.

Susan Oakey-Baker

They say ol’ man Beach is crazy. And maybe he is. But he goes ahead anyways. He’s the sort of man who knows the only things worth doing are the things might break your heart.

They will have difficulties to overcome,' I admitted. 'Including the differences in their religions. However, marriage is always a chancy business, Katherine. I have known individuals who appeared perfectly suited, by family background, religion, and nationality, who were thoroughly miserable.' 'So you believe in taking the chance?' 'Certainly. What is life without some risk?

Elizabeth Peters

Jim turned his head slowly to look into my eyes and shuddered. “It’s the closest I’ve ever felt to dying.

Susan Oakey-Baker

What looked safe was not safe. What looked hard and unsafe was probably safer. Anyway, safe was somewhere else in the world.

David Halberstam

Derivatives - The risk never leaves the system - It finds taker who believes the risk is acceptable....until they lose everything.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

If you take risks, you may fail. But if you do not take risks, you will surely fail. The greatest risk of all is to do nothing.

Roberto Goizueta

Maybe winning isn’t everything. One just needs to hedge the bet and minimize the risk.

We see the world as less random than it actually is.

I believe the more personally removed people are from a major financial event, the less it is to affect their appetite for risk.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

There is no greater place for damage (than marriage) because there is no greater place for glory.

There's no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk.

Most men wait to move until victory is guaranteed.

Most God-ordained dreams die because we are not willing to do something that seems illogical

The greatest risk is not taking any.

Tim Fargo

The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past -- no matter how good it was.

In ancient Rome, when a victorious general paraded through the streets, legend has it that he was sometimes trailed by a servant whose job it was to repeat to him, " Memento Mori": Remember you will die. A reminder of mortality would help the hero keep things in perspective, instill some humility. Job's memento mori had been delivered by his doctors, but it did not instill humility. Instead he roared back after his recovery with even more passion. The illness reminded him that he had nothing to lose, so he should forge ahead full speed. " He came back on a mission," said Cook. " Even though he was now running a large company, he kept making bold moves that I don't think anybody else would have done.

Walter Isaacson

It’s all a risk. Always. That’s not true, actually. The only exception: it’s a certainty that there’s risk. The safer you play your plans for the future, the riskier it actually is. That’s because the world is certainly, definitely, and more than possibly changing.

Risk is uncertainty injected into our most vulnerable places. And because that’s the case, we may choose not to risk.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

As de Saussure said, risk-taking brings with it its own reward: it keeps a "continual agitation alive" in the heart. Hope, fear. Hope, fear - this is the fundamental rhythm of mountaineering. Life, it frequently seems in the mountains, is more intensely lived the closer one gets to its extinction: we never feel so alive as when we have nearly died.

Robert Macfarlane

And then there is the most dangerous risk of all - the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.

Sometimes, Reynie, trouble itself is the key. - Mr. Benedict

Trenton Lee Stewart

When you fear falling, you never get off the ground.

Addison Killebrew

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