Quotes About Managing Risk

#1. The use of a growing array of derivatives and the related application of more-sophisticated approaches to measuring and managing risk are key factors underpinning the greater resilience of our largest financial institutions ... Derivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.

Alan Greenspan

#2. Think about this for a second. Why is it that we would not invest even a single dollar without diversifying it and managing risk, but do exactly the opposite, putting all of our eggs in one basket, with our regular income in our careers? - Chris Lutz, Modular Career Design

Chris Lutz

#3. Managing risk is very different from managing strategy. Risk management focuses on the negative-threats and failures rather than opportunities and successes.

Robert S. Kaplan

#4. Discipline allows you to trade effectively. You can take your ego out of it. You can go wrong 60, 70% of the time and still make a lot of money. If you ignore the discipline of managing risk, you have to be right 80% of the time or more, and I don't know anyone who's that good.

Larry Rosenberg

#5. If I die tonight, I want to die remembering what it was like to hold the whole world in my hands.

Leylah Attar

#6. Occasionally people ask me how it is I write different types of things, and my answer to that is it's very natural. You get bored writing one kind of thing all the time.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

#7. If your business had no risk, you could go get a bank loan and call it a day. VCs like risks - without them, venture capital wouldn't exist. But they need to be risks that VCs are good at assessing and managing.

Jose Ferreira

#8. When you're eight years old nothing is your business.

Lenny Bruce

#9. Reading isn't about managing expectations. In certain ways, writing is. You're trying to send signals early in a book about what might be coming later, but I think worrying about the kind of chatter around a book is something I try and stay as far away from when I'm reading.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#10. Hedge funds are a very efficient way of managing money. But there are clearly some risks. Hedge funds use credit and credit is a source of instability. Transactions involving credit should be regulated.

George Soros

#11. Business is all about risk taking and managing uncertainties and turbulence.

Gautam Adani

#12. If I didn't believe in what I'm doing, I'd rather go to work in a dime store.

Natalie Wood

#13. Unjustified ambition kills value,
Kills someone else's desire to fly,
Cuts their wings, sucks their air.
If there is nothing else, it eats its own life.

Dejan Stojanovic

#14. Risk is good. Not properly managing your risk is a dangerous leap.

Evel Knievel

#15. The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age; and when this fact has been established, the remainder of the principles of mathematics consists of the analysis of Symbolic Logic itself.

Bertrand Russell

#16. If managed well, urbanization can create enormous opportunities: allowing innovation and new ideas to emerge, saving energy, land and natural resources, managing climate and the risk of disasters.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

#17. Not that I regretted having Annie; I'd never felt that way for a second. I just regretted that I'd never had a chance to live the life I'd thought I was supposed to.

Kristin Harmel

#18. Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.

Reid Hoffman

#19. Ain't nothin' but a whole lot of suckin' goin' on in rap.

Eminem