Calculated Risks Quotes

#1. To put money into anything, anywhere, provided that the downside is measurable and acceptable and the chances of a good profit appear to be better than 50%. I will not take gambles, but it is part of my job description to be ready to take very carefully calculated risks.

Peter Cundill

#2. We take all these little calculated risks. All the time. Nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of a thousand nothing goes wrong. And the one time it does, we blame the person who took the risk, tell them they should have known better than to ever do such a thing. Which

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#3. Take calculated risks. Act boldly and thoughtfully. Be an agile company.

Ray Kroc

#4. Always seek input from others to aide you in reaching the best possible decision for your business/start-up. This is due to entrepreneurship mostly being about taking calculated risks, and you will always create better strategies if more facts and information go into the decision-making process.

Luigi Wewege

#5. Take calculated risks.

George S. Patton

#6. The Marquis de Carabas liked being who he was, and when he took risks he liked them to be calculated risks, and he was someone who double-and triple-checked his calculations. He

Neil Gaiman

#7. As an adventurer ... I try to protect against the downside. I make sure I have covered as many eventualities as I can. In the end, you have to take calculated risks; otherwise you're going to sit in mothballs all day and do nothing.

Richard Branson

#8. Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.

Warren E. Burger

#9. I think most astronauts are not risk takers. We take calculated risks for something that we think is worthwhile.

Michael J. Massimino

#10. Life is a series of calculated risks, James. I happen to think that this one is worth it.

Lish McBride

#11. You never know who you will meet along life's journey. You have to be open to risks, but calculated risks, open to winning.

Paula Deen

#12. Calculated risks are part of what you do, but the idea that something completely crazy will work just because it's completely crazy is completely crazy.

Bill Walsh

#13. We are ready to compromise. We are ready to take calculated risks, but for a peace that will give us security.

Yitzhak Rabin

#14. Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

George S. Patton

#15. Research is a way of taking calculated risks to bring about incalculable consequences.

Celia Green

#16. I think many people go to business school and learn ways to play it safe, ensuring that they avoid some of the pain that entrepreneurs endure while taking less calculated risks.

Sophia Amoruso

#17. The thing I preach constantly is do your research; build your knowledge base. Don't just go into business on a whim or a prayer - and don't think 'I'm an entrepreneur so I have to take risks'. Entrepreneurs don't take risks. They take calculated risks; only the good ones.

Theo Paphitis

#18. Coaches must take calculated risks all the time. One thing is to talk about what you plan to do and another is to prepare and then execute a plan toward change.

George M. Gilbert

#19. He was the only world-famous piano virtuoso who abhorred his public and also actually withdrew definitively from this abhorred public.

Thomas Bernhard

#20. Footprints in the snow have been unfailing provokers of sentiment ever since snow was first a white wonder in this drab-coloured world of ours.

Kenneth Grahame

#21. Kaufman calculated the risks of his situation: the mathematics of panic.

Clive Barker

#22. Stupidity was when you took risks for no good reason. Courage was when you took a calculated risk in order to accomplish something important. Had

Brandon Mull

#23. Calculated risk taking will pay huge dividends. How will you ever get to third base with one foot on second? The biggest risk is not taking risks.

Robin S. Sharma

#24. Self-exposure is commendable in art only when it is of a quality and complexity that allows other people to learn about themselves from it.

Susan Sontag

#25. She's the sun. I'm the dark.
If she's gone, I can kiss that fucking light away.
Without her, I know I'll never see it again.

Krista Ritchie

#26. Winners see an answer for every problem; losers see a problem in every answer!

Barbara Johnson

#27. There are many times where a woman would gladly drop her husband if she did not feel morally certain that some other woman would come right along and pick him up.

Helen Rowland

#28. You are in physical existence to learn and understand that your energy, translated into feelings, thoughts and emotions, causes all experience. There are no exceptions.

Jane Roberts

#29. Being is a more awakened state than having. To be is to exist in a space of pure choice and creation

Ilchi Lee

#30. Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.

William Hurt

#31. A classic is a book that survives the circumstances that made it possible yet alone keeps those circumstances alive.

Alfred Kazin