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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Much of the research into humans' risk-avoidance machinery shows that it is antiquated and unfit for the modern world; it is made to counter repeatable attacks and learn from specifics. If someone narrowly escapes being eaten by a tiger in a certain cave, then he learns to avoid that cave.
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Women will risk their lives to protect children, but rarely risk their lives to protect an adult man.
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Most individuals work much harder to hang on to what they have than to take the necessary risk to shoot for their dreams.
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There is not necessarily a good reason why a regulator should have to be involved in product design and marketing for rich and sophisticated investors. We recommend that such investors should be able to sign a piece of paper, which allows them to go ahead and buy unregulated products at their own risk.
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My wild words slip into fusion and risk losing the solid ground. So stranger, get wilder still. Probe the highlands.
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People are so ready to cut you down if you take a risk and leave your comfort zone.
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With the risk of being accused of quoting the wrong person I can say that Adolf Hitler wrote that "the more the press attacks a person the closer he is to us".
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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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We are still the America that does the hard things, that does the great things. We're the nation that always dared to dream. We're the nation that dared to take risks.
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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.
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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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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.
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When you're teaching creative nonfiction, it helps to have written about your life in a very open way, because you can say, 'Look, how much are you willing to risk emotionally to write? How careful can you be with the other people you're writing about?'
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You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
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I'm saying to be a hero is means you step across the line and are willing to make a sacrifice, so heroes always are making a sacrifice. Heroes always take a risk. Heroes always deviant. Heroes always doing something that most people don't and we want to change - I want to democratise heroism to say any of us can be a hero.
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The moment people come to know love, they run the risk of carrying hate.
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There is no risk factor at all, the odds don't matter at all, because the odds of Law of Attraction are 100%.
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So nevertheless, what I'm saying is that what one is - one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success, and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure.
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A hardware startup with a lot of funding and a lot of momentum has a lot less risk.
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Risk is what you make of it.
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Col. Shaffer is prohibited by his lawyer from talking. He's at great risk. They want to take away his pay and his health care benefits so they can hold it over his head and not allow him to talk while he's under suspension. This is not America.
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As an industry, we have a responsibility to manage risk in a way that is prudent.
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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.
