Risk Quotes
-
We must do right and risk the consequences.
-
Normal adults can doodle, amble, and drift with no need to assess risk, since there is normally no risk at all. Jazz improvisation seems less subject to standards of risk than surgery, and less than much formal athletic performance, as in a tennis match.
-
A troop surge in Baghdad would put more American troops at risk to address a problem that is not a military problem.
-
Leaving Iraq without military assistance during its transition, and before it is stable enough to ensure its own citizens' security, would pose a tremendous risk. We must complete our mission.
-
Most of us want to tell our coworkers or friends, or husbands or wives, our ideas. For what reason? We want validation. But I feel ideas are most vulnerable in their infancy. Out of love and concern, friends and family give all the reasons or objections on why [you] shouldn't do it. I didn't want to risk that.
-
When you risk nothing, you risk never truly living!
-
Risk deters those who see what they could lose. Those focused on the gain see it as a necessary part of their journey, even if the possibility of loss exists.
-
If you try to measure the future, you will never risk the present. Playing it safe. A ghastly game.
-
There is no achievement without risk.
-
We call them leaders because they go first, because they take the risk before anybody else does, because they will choose to sacrifice so their people will be safe and protected.
-
Successful people are usually more lively than those who are unsuccessful. The quickening of the spirit they feel comes out of their creativity, and success detaches them from the more rigid outlook on life - it puts them in the flow. So the shakers and movers, by their very nature, are moving faster, taking more risks, and investing more in the world than their less active counterparts.
-
There is no knowledge without risk taking.
-
True #leadership isn't the bastion of a few who sit at the top ... We all need to step up, take the risk and put our interests second-not always-but when it counts.
-
Risk is what you control and fortune is really all about risk. Bottom Line: Fortune comes from big money bets on very low probability events.
-
Never, be argued out of your soul, never be argued out of your honor, and never be argued into believing that soul and honor do not run a terrible risk if you limp into life with the load of a debt on your shoulders.
-
Life is all about toiling and labor. But obviously I get great joy in confronting challenge and taking risk.
-
A good bond fund, like a high yield fund, has less credit risk and less interest rate risks -- and a good manager will add value.
-
Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
-
I think people only develop a passion for protecting things if they know what is at risk.
-
There's no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk.
-
Safe is good for sidewalks and swimming pools, but life requires risk if we are to get anywhere.
-
How often do our heroes stand still? It's hard to imagine Spock and Kirk landing on a planet and just relaxing for a month or two. Just hanging out has nothing to do with boldly going where no one has gone before. What makes us different from every other creature is that we go places, places we've not gone before. We do it willingly, and often. What makes our work and our life interesting is discovery, surprise, and the risk of exploration.
-
Two resources, largely untapped in American organizations, are potential information and employee creativity
-
When the media report an environmental link to a 30 percent increase in the risk of some cancer, it is headline news, yet these far more dramatic figures are overlooked.
