Risk Quotes

No matter what your decisions are, no matter what your votes are, if youre not playing by the rules, youre taking a big risk.

Every project for me is a risk that I bet on. I believe my senses, and hopefully it will be successful. But sometimes you make it, and sometimes you fail.

A man can't hit a woman and stay a man. He becomes a loathsome thing, even to himself. But the woman who stays with such a man panders to his darkness. They both risk their souls.

The trick is to take risks and be paid for taking those risks, but to take a diversified basket of risks in a portfolio.

If you let fear of the unknown stop you from taking chances, you will stifle your true potential.

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

I've arrived at the place if I'm not taking a career risk, I'm not happy. If I'm scared, then I know I'm being challenged.

people who refuse to take risks live with a feeling of dread that is far more severe than what they would feel if they took the risks necessary to make them less helpless - only they don't know it!

Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Risk being seen in all of your glory.

Nowadays, you suffer the same risks - ostracism, career loss, possible assault - for being perceived as racist that you would have encountered a century ago for daring to question racist ideology.

Charity is great, but the moment you say it is all, you run the risk of running into materialism.

You have to risk going too far to discover just how far you can really go.

I had someone very close to me say to me that hopefully I’ll have many more ups and downs, not in just my career but in life. If you don’t have that, you’re not taking enough risks.

If I don't take the risk, I'll wind up with a bloodless poem. I have to be out there on the edge.

I'm lucky to have family around me. Otherwise, I'll be taking the risk of falling in love with myself.

Most investors are primarily oriented toward return, how much they can make and pay little attention to risk, how much they can lose.

I focus on the most important form of innumeracy in everyday life, statistical innumeracy--that is, the inability to reason about uncertainties and risk.

To misunderstand the nature and threat of evil is to risk being blindsided by it.

Rich people who own mansions on the beach shouldn't get federal subsidies. If you want to stay there, take the risk

While it might seem that anyone can be a value investor, the essential characteristics of this type of investor-patience, discipline, and risk aversion-may well be genetically determined.

I think people are afraid of either failing or succeeding. It takes courage to feel the fear and feel the risk.

A manager is an assistant to his men.

Some books accrete things to themselves like a magnet. The writer risks sterility by subjecting the mysterious power of imagination to the devices of mere comprehension.

You've got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it's not in movie stardom.

The greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war.

Criticism is a life without risk.

If risk is the key factor to success and really smart people avoid it, you might not be dumb enough to succeed!

I've never had a car. Like I can drive, but I'm always at the risk of killing people.

The man who is afraid to risk failure seldom has to face success.

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

The evidence that folic acid reduces the risk of heart disease is pretty strong. [...] And fruits and vegetables are a major source of folic acid.

Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

The foundation is an instrument forged by citizens who transfer profit from the commercial sector and put it directly to work as risk capital for the general betterment of the society.

The Moulin Rouge is, like the West Village and the Nasdaq, one of those places that people who don't like to take risks come to for the thrill of being on the spot where risks once were taken.

Ben was a great believer in buying a diversified group of securities, so that he limited his risk.

Our lives improve only when we take chances.

Well you know, it's true that as a fat person I run a greater risk of heart disease, diabetes, and a number of other things. But guess what? The amount of that risk is almost infinitessimal!

Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That's what life's all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.

If you're not willing to risk, there are no rewards.

I've always hid behind the music despite the fact that I have a huge personality. I'm thrilled that the music is bigger than me and will outlive and outlast me. It frees me up to take risks.

As a co-chair of the State's 2010 Olympics Task Force, I am working to make sure our border crossings are ready to handle the risks and benefits the Games will bring.

Live as a credible witness. If our actions don't line up with the message we're proclaiming, we risk losing our credibility.

The only mistake is not to risk making one.

I found myself getting more publicly shy when the gala events and big crowds started. Some people embrace it. To me, it's not worth enough to risk my private life being public.

Even those who venture to dip a toe in the pond of risk never allow themselves to get used to the water.

Taking risks in older age is more courageous because you have more to lose. When you have nothing, you have nothing to lose.

If we accept that there is no such thing as 'zero risk' then we should not spin the meaning of words with assertions such as 'all accidents are preventable'.

By making college unaffordable and student loans unbearable, we risk deterring our best and brightest from pursuing higher education and securing a good paying job.

LGBT youth face a much higher risk of violence and homelessness after being rejected by their family of origin.

I know that in embarking on non-violence I shall be running what might be termed a mad risk. But the victories of truth have never been won without risks.