Risk Quotes

• If nobody can sell mortgage-backed securities based on trillions of dollars of unpayable instruments, there's a lot less risk in the overall system.

  

  Elizabeth Warren
  • Risk

• We and other groups are seeing clear statistical links between telomere shortness and risk for a variety of diseases that are becoming very common, such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes and certain cancers.

  

  Elizabeth Blackburn
  • Risk

• If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don't know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Time
  • Risk

• Dark lipstick on me is both a risk and a disaster.

  

  Alexa Chung
  • Dark
  • Risk
  • Lipstick

• All the way through, we have been willing to take risks, provided at the end of it we can get a decent lasting settlement in Northern Ireland

  

  Tony Blair
  • Decent
  • Lasting
  • Settlement

• I stepped out on faith to follow my lifelong dream of being an author. I made real sacrifices and took big risks. But living, it seems to me, is largely about risk.

  

  Jan Karon
  • Real
  • Dream
  • Faith

• Love is taking chances when every rational part of you screams, ‘Don’t risk it.’ Because it’s only when your heart has been ripped open that you get a chance to find the one person capable of making it whole.

  

  Sabrina Jeffries
  • Heart
  • Risk
  • Love Is

• I might be manipulating you to create risk for myself.

  

  Sharon Stone
  • Risk
  • Manipulating

• I think in general, people who aren't themselves entrepreneurs are often more risk averse. And I think you see this dynamic a lot with entrepreneurial people who lead a company, which is that they hire people who complement them.

  

  Leila Janah
  • People
  • Risk

• Even when things feel calm, there is still a risk.

  

  Alison Levine
  • Risk
  • Things
  • Calm

• Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Risk
  • Religion
  • Attitude

• I think if your goal is for everything to be okay, that's a mistake. To achieve that goal, the only obstacle you'd have to face tomorrow is to eliminate all risk ... I've made the decision that I'm never trying to make everything okay. I'm trying for there to be more loose ends, not fewer loose ends.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Decision

• At every concert I leave a lot to the moment. I must have the unexpected, the unforeseen. I want to risk, to dare. I want to be surprised by what comes out. I want to enjoy it more than the audience. That way the music can bloom anew. It's like making love. The act is always the same, but each time it's different.

  

  Arthur Rubinstein
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• This is my risk to take.Not yours. I can live with getting myself killed. Technically, you can't live if you get yourself killed.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Risk
  • Killed

• The United States is probably the most [socially] mobile society in the history of the world. The virtues that are most valuable in it are diligence, discipline, ambition, and a willingness to take risks. Education and credentials are most important in government; elsewhere most skills are learned on the job.

  

  George Gilder
  • World
  • Important
  • Discipline

• We really have no choice but to pray and encourage a return to an America steeped in Judeo-Christian values. It is either that or taking our chances in a society with no values at all. For all Americans the former carries certain risks, but the latter spells certain doom. For now, we should not be deflected by theological debate from the life-saving tasks awaiting us. There is work to be done. We must ensure that America will continue to be part of God's plan for the world.

  

  Daniel Lapin
  • World
  • Done
  • Choices

• If things are ever to move upward, some one must take the first step, and assume the risk of it. No one who is not willing to try charity, to try non-resistance as the saint is always willing, can tell whether these methods will or will not succeed.

  

  William James
  • Trying
  • Moving
  • Saint

• Every sport has dangers, and it's a risk we all take, but that's why people need to give us the credit we deserve.

  

  Dillian Whyte
  • Risk
  • Sport
  • Dangers

• As a man, having a conversation about feminism can be tricky - the best I can do is to have assumptions and ask questions. You always run the risk of putting your foot in it.

  

  O. T. Fagbenle
  • Risk

• One reason why entrepreneurs are admired is that they often take on a degree of risk in launching a new business.

  

  Andrew Yan
  • Why
  • Business
  • Risk

• We are very optimistic about our opportunities in China. Our toothbrushes continue to sell very well, while the growth of private hospitals diminishes the risk of government preferring domestic suppliers.

  

  Frans van Houten
  • Risk
  • Growth
  • Optimistic

• We can’t afford to be so worried about losing the next election that we lose the battles we owe to the next generation. The real gamble in this election is playing the same Washington game with the same Washington players and expecting a different result. And that’s a risk we can’t take.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Different
  • Real
  • Game

• I'm afraid sometimes certain individual cases of defaults are unavoidable. What we should do is to step up monitoring, properly handle relevant matters, and ensure there is no regional and systemic financial risk.

  

  Li Keqiang
  • Up
  • Risk
  • Financial

• We all want to break our orbits, float like a satellite gone wild in space, run the risk of disintegration. We all want to take our lives in our own hands and hurl them out among the stars.

  

  David Bottoms
  • Running
  • Hands
  • Break

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