Risk Quotes
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Frankly, I guess, I don't really understand why people, why so many people, are so risk averse. You know, there's always ways to wiggle your way out of any situation if you're motivated enough.
Eric Betzig -
Many unfortunate human situations unfold ... where people who face very bad options take desperate gambles, accepting a high probability of making things worse in exchange for a small hope of avoiding a large loss. Risk taking of this king often turns manageable failures into disasters.
Daniel Kahneman
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To us there has come a time, in the midst of swift happenings, to pause for a moment and take stock - to recall what our place in history has been, and to rediscover what we are and what we may be. If we do not, we risk the real peril of inaction.
Franklin D. Roosevelt -
The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes.
Anthony Giddens -
Don't let a lack of big company names on your resume get you down, but also, don't let it feed a Silicon Valley ego. Oftentimes, the best candidates come from startups or smaller companies. It shows they are open to risk and can keep up with the long hours and occasional harsh demands.
Brit Morin -
I free-form it, rock n' roll it. I'm a creature of risk, so I don't know how I'm going to explore a Beethoven symphony until I'm doing it.
Charles Hazlewood -
The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
Benjamin Cardozo -
Over many years, the United States has worked to persuade and compel governments around the world to abide by the rules. By spurning our own rules, we put that effort at risk.
Anthony Lewis
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The way to get people's votes is to say that all their problems are caused by other people, and that you will stop those other people from giving them trouble. But if you really want to help, then you can tell them the truth and risk losing their votes.
Thomas Sowell -
The safety of the flying public should not be for sale. Handing air traffic control over to a private entity partly governed by the airlines is both a risk and liability we can't afford to take.
Bill Nelson -
There is a lot of risk in the tech sector.
Lou Jiwei -
As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving.
Ben Kingsley -
I give everything I have every time I take the ball. With that, I also know that there will always be a risk of injury when playing this game that I love.
Masahiro Tanaka -
Every human being experiences risks; some of the risks are common to all humans, and some are unique to the life each of us has been given to live. But I know for certain that risk – both it's shadow and its reality – has shaped my life inside and out.
Ben Carson
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Keeping the risk management plan up to date can transform it from a door stop into a vital project management tool. Remember: what you don't know can kill your project.
Bruce Pittman -
Most individuals work much harder to hang on to what they have than to take the necessary risk to shoot for their dreams.
Anthony Robbins -
I spent my whole career thinking about risk, markets, infrastructure, and regulation. I had seen the financial crisis unfold, and I had seen the credit derivatives market get operationally ahead of itself, which resulted in systemic risk counterparty exposures. I began to believe that distributed ledgers had the capability to tackle that problem.
Blythe Masters -
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.
Louise Erdrich -
For your soul's sake, invoke the agent of change called risk, which ensures that things will not be the same tomorrow as they are today. All real change requires risk.
Debbie Ford -
For some reason surfing... I'm not scared of the ocean so the risk doesn't seem as great to me.
John Slattery
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When I started to be a writer, I was not going to run the risk of boring you.
Daniel Woodrell -
In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.
Learned Hand -
By definition, risk-takers often fail. So do morons. In practice it's difficult to sort them out.
Scott Adams -
No One said there'd be night like this, Risk your life for a stolen kiss.
Jon Bon Jovi