Risk Quotes

A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees.

The key to risk management is never putting yourself in a position where you cannot live to fight another day.

What is it about the government and its agents and employees that they can lie to us with impunity, but we risk being sent to jail if we lie to them?

The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.

With government deregulation and the triumph of financial liberalization, the dangers of systemic risks, the possibility of a financial tsunami, sharply increased.

I live through risk. Without risk there is no art. You should always be on the edge of a cliff about to fall down and break your neck.

Risk discomfort and solitude for understanding.

When it comes to your dreams, every risk is worth it.

The most basic problem is that performance appraisals often don't accurately assess performance.

Kindness is not about instant gratification. More often, it's akin to a low-risk investment that appreciates steadily over time.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

The body is in some sense perennially at risk. The possibility of bodily injury is ever-present, even in the most familiar of surroundings.

Anything good that I have written has, at some point during its composition, left me feeling uneasy and afraid. It has seemed, for a moment at least, to put me at risk.

The Federal Reserve has a responsibility to ensure the safety and soundness of financial institutions and to contain systemic risks in financial markets.

There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need.

The real risk is doing nothing.

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

There is such a gauntlet of risk that you go through when you climb up to Everest.

Some see risk as a reason not to try. Some see it as an obstacle to overcome. The risk is the same; to try or not depends on your perspective.

Good food and good eating are about risk.

If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.

It's a gamble you take, the risk of alienating an audience. But there's a theory - sometimes it's better to confuse them for five minutes than let them get ahead of you for 10 seconds.

Faith is a record of great risks taken.

You are alive, so take your life and enjoy it. You were born with the right to be happy, to love, and to share your love. Just to be-to take a risk and enjoy your life-is all that matters.

We are ready to compromise. We are ready to take calculated risks, but for a peace that will give us security.

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

Love's easy to learn. It's like taking a risk. You set your mind on it and refuse to be afraid, and in no time you feel terrifically exhilarated and all your inhibitions fly out of the window.

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

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.

If information is true, if it can be verified, and if it's really important, the newspaper needs to be willing to take the risk associated with using unidentified sources.

The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety.

It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.

The greatest hazard in life is to risk NOTHING.

Staying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want to experience connection.

I think investment psychology is by far the more important element, followed by risk control, with the least important consideration being the question of where you buy and sell.

There is always risk involved. You can't be a capitalist only when there are investment profits but then a socialist when you experience losses.

Everyone can tell you the risk. An entrepreneur can see the reward.

After taking risk into account, do more managers than you’d see by chance outperform with persistence? Virtually every economist who studied this question answers with a resounding 'no.'

Changes don't happen in the world by playing it safe, taking risks is the way to change the world.

Cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality. Eliminate the need for inspection on a mass basis by building quality into the product in the first place.

Skiers make the best lovers because they don't sit in front of a television like couch potatoes. They take a risk and they wiggle their behinds. They also meet new people on the ski lift.

Speak up. Believe in yourself. Take risks.

Dare to fail. If you never fail, you're never taken risks and that's no way to take on this life.

Very few things are as dangerous as a bunch of incentive-driven individuals trying to play it safe.

When you stop a dictator, there are always risks. But there are greater risks in not stopping a dictator.

The question is whether personal freedom is worth the terrible effort, the never-lifted burden and risks of self-reliance.

Safe is good for sidewalks and swimming pools, but life requires risk if we are to get anywhere.

The irony is that the person not taking risks feels the same amount of fear as the person who regularly takes risks.

If you ask me, taking on risk and being more daring is a real important part of creativity.