Risk Quotes
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Smug respectability, like the poor, we've had with us always. Today, however, ... such obtuseness is an indulgence we can no longer afford. The computer, nuclear energy for better or worse, and sudden, simultaneous influences upon everyone's TV screen have raised the ante and the risk considerably.
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We need a president that is sitting down, getting Americans to work, getting this economy going. That is the single most important thing that the president of the United States does, is create a climate where job creators know that they're going to be able to risk their capital and have a chance to have a return on the investment. And it's never too late to start that.
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I had discovered long ago the first lesson of political courage: to think anew. I had then learned the second: to be prepared to lead and to decide. I was now studying the third: how to take the calculated risk. I was going to alienate some people, like it or not. The moment you decide, you divide.
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I will not let anyone into America that I think poses a risk to us.
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The greatest hazard in life is to risk NOTHING.
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There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.
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How will you know that you love, if there is no terror of losing? Is it love at all, if there is no risk? If it is safe?
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If you don't risk doing something foolish, you'll never do anything special.
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There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy.
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It's hard to send your baby off on a plane without you, though that's less reasonable, because sending him off in a car is statistically a bigger risk.
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If there were 10,000 U.S. forces ashore [in Lebanon], authorized to move about, there would be less risk to American lives than there is with an immobile force of 1,300.
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I believe the more personally removed people are from a major financial event, the less it is to affect their appetite for risk.
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Awkwardness is when there's a risk of a perception gap between what you mean and what you appear to mean.
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The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living.
