Risk Quotes
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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.
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At the risk of sounding too cliche, I found a really fantastic church. That is what keeps me grounded.
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I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre.
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The biggest profit center for investment banks is the hefty fees they charge for underwriting stock offerings and giving financial advice, and analysts put those profits at risk if they publish negative conclusions about the companies that pay the fees.
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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.
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Managers have traditionally developed the skills in finance, planning, marketing and production techniques. Too often the relations with their people have been assigned a secondary role. This is too important a subject not to receive first-line attention. In this regard we could learn much from the Japanese. We must reinvest in the human side of management.
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Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
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As an industry, we have a responsibility to manage risk in a way that is prudent.
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Writing is taking a risk, and it is actually fighting invisible and invincible enemies. They are over-confidence, stupidity, expectation and narcissism.
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It's taken me a long time to learn to accept the risks and just be willing to try it over and over again.
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That was kind of scary. You got the sense as a little kid that you might be at risk now, and then you're like, 'Why are we at risk? It's because my grandfather is in charge of all of this.' You can't really realize the magnitude of a job like that when you are eight.
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When you are married to a guy who takes chances every day, who loves risk and has great intuition and great business instincts - when you're married to someone like that who pushes you to dream big, you dream big.
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Stronger regulation and supervision aimed at problems with underwriting practices and lenders' risk management would have been a more effective and surgical approach to constraining the housing bubble than a general increase in interest rates.
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It is vital that we raise awareness of the risks faced by drug misusers.
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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.
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Soldiers willingly, sometimes foolishly, risk their own lives to keep their comrades out of enemy hands.
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I took a learjet to cop some lipstick Yeah Imma risk it I'm optimistic
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Children born of married parents in America face a higher risk of seeing them break up than children born of unmarried parents in Sweden.
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For years, agency officials said that atrazine in drinking water posed almost no risk to humans or the environment.
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I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.
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Taking away the risk from the financial sector and taking it on to the public shoulders is not the right approach.
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As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving.
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When I'm dealing with Britney Spears and Katy Perry, these massive brands, like, really, very Coca-Cola, you know what I mean? There are certain kinds of standards. There are risks you can take, and there's risks that you don't. And I think I'm interested in taking a little more risk in my own music.
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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?
