Risk Quotes

If you're afraid to take risks in anything in life, it's just boredom.

As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving.

I think the real risk comes in being willing to try to be authentic.

You have to take calculated risks in life.

One of the major biases in risky decision making is optimism. Optimism is a source of high-risk thinking.

Greatest risk of all: to be vulnerable, to allow others to see us as we really are

Take risks. Ask big questions. Don't be afraid to make mistakes; if you don't make mistakes, you're not reaching far enough.

Standing in our power demands that we be vulnerable, listen to our own voice, and take risks outside the comfort of what we know.

One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed.

The difference between a calculated risk and rolling the dice can be expressed in one word: homework.

You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk.

One who rushes madly after inordinate desire, runs the risk of encountering destruction and death.

Risk-taking, trust, and serendipity are key ingredients of joy. Without risk, nothing new ever happens. Without trust, fear creeps in. Without serendipity, there are no surprises.

If you want to do something extraordinary, there's always risk involved. I was always willing to take that risk.

If we face recession, we should not lay off employees; the company should sacrifice a profit. It's management's risk and management's responsibility. Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?

How can you admire a human who consciously embraces the bland, the mediocre, and the safe rather than risk the suffering that disappointment can bring?

If we define risk as 'the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome,' inaction is the greatest risk of all.

It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost, and at any risk to the rest of the community.

The growth stock theory of investing requires patience, but is less stressful than trading, generally has less risk, and reduces brokerage commissions and income taxes.

When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality.

When I wrote 'Before The Dawn,' I made it quite clear that there are lots of people involved in my life who I can't talk about simply because I'd put them at risk.

The knowledge that you can handle anything that comes your way is the key to allowing yourself to take risks. ... security is not having things; it's handling things.

Take a risk a day - one small or bold stroke that will make you feel great once you have done it.

Those who seek the truth run the risk of finding it.

I admire anyone who isn't afraid to take risks and try out things that aren't usually looked at as "normal."

And to live without risk for me would have been tantamount to death.

The Universe will kick you out of your nest so you can fly.

Make sure you have an edge. Know what your edge is. And have rigid risk control rules.

The impact of climate change is a tremendous risk to the security and well-being of our countries.

Surfing is all about uncertainty. That feeling of taking a risk, that leap of faith every time I jump into the ocean, that paddle out among things unseen — all of these make surfing very special

I have been a bit of a risk-taker all my life.

It has always amazed and humbled me to how the risk to bloom can seem so insurmountable beforehand and so inevitably freeing once the threshold of suffering is crossed.

Why write if this too easy activity of pushing a pen across paper is not given a certain bullfighting risk and we do not approach dangerous, agile and two-horned topics?

Instead, to be financially free, we need to learn how to make mistakes and manage risk.

There are a lot of ways that investment banking models work, but these risks are not internalized by the people that are taking them.

The greatest risk we face in software development is that of overestimating our own knowledge.

Action learning particularly obliges subjects to become aware of their own value systems, by demanding that the real problems tackled carry some risk of personal failure.

The scientific evidence is now overwhelming: climate change presents very serious global risks, and it demands an urgent global response.

All economic activity is by definition "high risk." And defending yesterday--that is, not innovating--is far more risky than making tomorrow.

When you say ROI, do you mean return on investment or risk of inaction.

The biggest risk a person can take is to do nothing.

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.

To risk life to save a smile on a face of a woman or a child is the secret of chivalry.

This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is a risk, that it is a bad thing.

You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.

Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.

A risk-free life is far from being a healthy life.

A commitment to growth is a commitment to risk, courage, faith, strength, hope, and a willingness to make mistakes, get back up and try again.

We ought to fear a man who hates himself, for we are at risk of becoming victims of his anger and revenge. Let us then try to lure him into self-love.

Many pleasant things are better when they belong to someone else. When things belong to others, we enjoy them twice as much, without the risk of losing them, and with the pleasure of novelty.