Risk Quotes

The science is in: either we go cold turkey on our coal, oil, and gas addictions, or we risk raising the planet's temperature to a level incompatible with the continued existence of civilization.

The fallacy in the progressive critique is the egalitarian dogma that no one should get more than what liberals deem is a 'fair' reward, nor should there be any risk to anyone to fail.

Instead of antiquated notions of physical daring, courage is much more about making small choices to take initiative even when we are experiencing anxiety and facing risk.

A writer must take risks, defy the odds, be a bit obsessed and a little mad.

There is always hazard in military activity, but we must decide between the positive loss of inactivity and the risk of action.

Risk is an essential part of progress.

My basic rule is if the relative risk isn't at least 3 or 4, forget it.

In a world where technology and capital are highly transferable, there is a real risk that comparative advantage comes to be defined as whose labor force will work for the lowest wage.

There isn't an entrepreneur or a scientific pioneer who hasn't had failures. And if we don't rear children who are comfortable taking risks, we won't have successes.

When a political organization loses contact with its origin, it declines and risks implosion.

If you only take small risks, you are only entitled to a small life.

Let it never be said of this generation of Americans that we became so obsessed with failure that we refused to take risks that could further the cause of peace and freedom in the world.

I have been rich, and I have been broke. Some of it is my fault for choosing bad management and making bad investments. But that is life - we all take risks.

The risk of insult is the price of clarity.

A theory's assumptions always are and ought to be unrealistic. Further, we should attempt to make them more unrealistic in order to increase a theory's fruitfulness.

You can risk being wrong or you can be boring.

Other people's risks are statistical. When it's your risk, your own child, it isn't statistical anymore.

To Dare is to risk losing your foothold for a moment, Not to Dare is to risk losing yourself.

Avoiding risk is not much of a goal...whether you crawl into a hole or walk a high wire, nobody gets out of here alive. We cannot grow without challenge.

I think music needs danger; it needs risk.

The opposite of security is insecurity, and the only way to overcome insecurity is to take risks.

A lottery is a salutary instrument and a tax... laid on the willing only, that is to say, on those who can risk the price of a ticket without sensible injury, for the possibility of a higher prize.

In the financial system we have today, with less risk concentrated in banks, the probability of systemic financial crises may be lower than in traditional bank-centered financial systems

We face a far greater risk of psychological depression than of economic recession.

I wonder if one can view risk like a drug, beneficial to the organism in the proper dose. Too much or too little may be harmful.

Ever since I took to the streets when I was 17 to protest at great personal risk against the communist dictatorship, I have been a passionate democrat.

I dedicate all my time to baseball, because when you come from where I come from, you don't want to risk anything.

Risk can be greatly reduced by concentrating on only a few holdings.

If you don't know the Jewelry, know the Jeweller

Life is dangerous and you're not gonna live a life without risk.

Quality, productivity, and innovation can be significantly increased if companies provide all employees with practical tools for exploiting potential information

What part of me was born with the courage to stand in front of strangers and risk rejection?

The only thing you live to regret are the risks you didn't take

You can't be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful.

They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever...and the other one scared me out of my mind.

What is courage without risk... It wouldn’t really be courage, would it?

We can choose who we bring into our lives. We can choose who will reinforce our risk taking.

Love puts all logic to sleep. Otherwise, we wouldn't risk it.

There has always been a part of me that saw wilderness and risk-taking as the path to freedom.

The biggest risk I've ever taken is going on American Idol and trying to be myself. I wasn't going to try too hard to conform, and I knew that it could possibly not work out.

If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?

For anybody that works in any kind of demining or any kind of humanitarian aid work, there is danger and it's always a high-risk area [in Cambodia].

I completely take on the risk, the poker game, which being an artist means, and I'm going to try to make a film which honestly reflects what I have in my head.

If radioactive waste were dissolved as water soluble compounds and then widely dispersed in the oceans, no health or other environmental risks would ever occur.

The technical explanation is that the market-sensitive risk models used by thousands of market participants work on the assumption that each user is the only person using them.

Never risk your reputation on a single shot, for if you miss the loss is irreparable.

If we set our priority "the removal of all risk", we'll soon have sterile, stagnant, and unstimulating learning environments.

Hope was a dangerous emotion that more often than not led men into foolishness and peril, made them risk their lives and lose their wives and part with fortunes that they never recovered.

I don't think this is an example of life and limb being at risk. I like the fact that our fans care.

In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.