Ernst Haas Quotes

I have always felt better taking a risk than an easier route for what I believe in.

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• Almost anything worth doing involves some measure of risk - from learning to ride a bike, moving to a new city, and certainly, starting your own business. The point is that no one has ever started a business or created a new product with a guarantee of success.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Business
  • Success
  • City

• We got government off the backs of the people of India, particularly off the backs of India's entrepreneurs. We introduced more competition, both internal competition and external competition. We simplified and rationalized the tax system. We made risk-taking much more attractive.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • People
  • Government
  • Risk

• People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • You
  • Easier

• It's easier to release an ebook than a print book.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Book
  • Easier
  • Print

• Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Life
  • Live
  • Family

• Most estimates of the mortality risk posed by asteroid impacts put it at about the same risk as flying in a commercial airliner. However, you have to remember that this is like the entire human race riding the plane - it is one of the few risks that really could wipe us all out.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Remember
  • Risk
  • Flying

• I think there's a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk.

  

  Edmund H. North
  • Think
  • Risk
  • Difference

• It's the adventure, the adrenaline-flowing, risk-taking in outdoor activities that attracts me.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Me
  • Risk
  • Adventure

• Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • People
  • Help
  • Risk

• 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.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Man
  • Proud
  • Risk

• I just always found it easier to be the same guy onstage as you are offstage.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Guy
  • You
  • Always

• People find it hard to understand how I can risk ruining my career as a musician by injuring myself on the slopes, but I've always been a tomboy.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • People
  • Career
  • Myself

• A woman living with her mother has limited freedom; a man living with his mother has limited freedom and limited respect. For most men, the vacuum (of no support system) is so devastating, they’d rather agree with their wife than express their feelings and risk emotional withdrawal.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Mother
  • Freedom

• The Male Teacher Corps not only exposes children to men from a variety of professions, but exposes children to men with more risk-taking, entrepreneurial male energy and values, creating a balance between exposure to the male and female value systems.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Children
  • Energy

• 'Why risk?' I responded. 'It should be, why not to risk?'

  

  Ben Carson
  • Why
  • Risk

• But no matter what safety steps we take or what security precautions we adopt, our risk of death is not approximately – but exactly – 100 percent. There is no margin of error on the statistic.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Death
  • Risk
  • Safety

• To us art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk.

  

  Adolph Gottlieb
  • World
  • Art
  • Risk

• I personally have said many times I'd be a hundred percent in equities. That fits my risk profile and my views of the world, though obviously it's not appropriate for everyone. Most investors need a more diversified portfolio.

  

  Laurence D. Fink
  • World
  • Risk

• In the past, Joint Special Operations Command, or JSOC, of which SEAL Team 6 is a key component, has only launched ground raids in Yemen when the lives of hostages held by al Qaeda seemed at risk.

  

  Peter Bergen
  • Past
  • Team
  • Risk

• When I was a model, everybody was scrutinising me and I felt I had to go to the gym because my figure had to be fantastic. Now that I'm a singer, I've got a different kind of body – it's more athletic.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Model
  • Singer
  • Fantastic

• All the ousted regimes, as well as the oppressive regimes that have hung on during the Arab Spring, have now blessed Egypt's coup...a blossoming democracy in Cairo can easily spread throughout the Arab world...Those who support freedom and democracy in the Middle East, however, should resist the new tyranny in Cairo with all their might.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Support

• Opportunity usually shows up in overalls and looking like work.

  

  Mike Rowe
  • Opportunity
  • Inspiration
  • Overalls

• I have always felt better taking a risk than an easier route for what I believe in.

  

  Ernst Haas
  • Risk
  • Easier
  • Routes