Risks Quotes
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Where there is a problem, the risks to the public are greater than they've ever been before.
Dan Glickman
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Instead of going to the ends of the Earth - and plumbing the depths of the oceans - to squeeze out every last drop of oil, we need, instead, to do everything we can to reduce the risks of offshore oil and gas production.
Frances Beinecke
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I was profoundly moved to be the first United Nations Secretary-General to attend the Peace Memorial Ceremony in Hiroshima. I also visited Nagasaki. Sadly, we know the terrible humanitarian consequences from the use of even one weapon. As long as such weapons exist, so, too, will the risks of use and proliferation.
Ban Ki-moon
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Despite the ever-increasing financial pressures experienced by writers and the ever-decreasing space afforded by the media to books, writers are still willing to aim for quality and to take risks.
Amanda Foreman
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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.
Ronnie Wood The Rolling Stones
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Spiritual life and secure life do not go together; to save oneself on must struggle and take risks.
Ignazio Silone
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We took risks. We knew we took them. Things have come out against us. We have no cause for complaint.
Robert Falcon Scott
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Take risks. Take chances. Don't be afraid. You gotta go into life brave.
Billy Joel
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Novelists who pretend to understand what keeps them scribbling are really just guessing. A profound, unmet childish need to be acknowledged? Maybe. It hardly matters, though. The termite that asks itself why it keeps chewing risks becoming sluggish and inefficient, as does the writer who grows self-conscious in the middle of chapter five.
Walter Kirn
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I think it's because it's so different and it takes risks. Plus, it's really smart humor. It gives the audience credit in terms of not needing to tell them when to laugh. I love that about the show. There's no laugh track.
Sarah Chalke
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Great people do things before they're ready. They do things before they know they can do it. Doing what you're afraid of, getting out of your comfort zone, taking risks like that - that is what life is. You might be really good. You might find out something about yourself that's really special and if you're not good, who cares? You tried something. Now you know something about yourself.
Amy Poehler
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It is important to recognise near- and medium-term risks to the inflation outlook.
Urjit Patel
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If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don't take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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The thing is doing it, that's what it's all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It's a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself. I don't feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there's something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go. Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
Al Pacino
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I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk.
Oprah Winfrey
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I talk a lot about taking risks, and then I follow that up very quickly by saying, 'Take prudent risks.'
Irene Rosenfeld
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In equities, you price the risk. As far as debt is concerned, if the markets get more sophisticated where, for the levels of risks that you take, you get the debt returns, we will certainly look at it. It's back to a philosophy of risk-adjusted returns.
Uday Kotak
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... a speculator is one who runs risks of which he is aware and an investor is one who runs risks of which he is unaware.
John Maynard Keynes
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A man whose eyes love opens risks his soul - His dancing breaks beyond the mind's control.
Farid al-Din Attar
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You can take risks with the characters and their development in a standalone novel.
Karin Slaughter
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Our assessment currently is that the risks to inflation are perhaps the more significant at the moment, and we need to address that.
Ben Bernanke
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More and more students are playing it safe and not taking any risks. You might not succeed, but that's just part of the game.
Walter Munk
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Success will come. Or it won't. But I think you can only make a go at it in a big way by fully being yourself and taking risks. People can feel risks.
Caroline Polachek Chairlift
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Those who know they're valued irrespective of their accomplishments often end up accomplishing quite a lot. It's the experience of being accepted without conditions that helps people develop a healthy confidence in themselves, a belief that it's safe to take risks and try new things.
Alfie Kohn