Quotes About Risks

#1. When you sell options, you get paid for assuming risk. That can be a profitable business, but it does not mix well with the risks inherent in a leveraged portfolio.

George Soros

#2. When all of your decisions are based on economics, you end up with a sameness of vision. You're not taking the risks, you're not exploiting the passions of your creators. You're manufacturing product for a huge vending machine.

Steven Bochco

#3. It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous.
Resign yourself to be the fool you are ...
... We must always take risks. That is our destiny ...

T. S. Eliot

#4. To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks.

Bill Gates

#5. You can never get rid of all of your fears. Some are necessary and a part of life. But most of our fears are illusory, based on risks or threats that exist only in our minds. Such fears constrain and make you miserable. The feeling of moving past a particular fear is one of liberation and freedom.

Robert Greene

#6. With all the precautions and risks that accompany sex today, it sounds about as much fun as walking through a minefield.

Erma Bombeck

#7. A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that's achieved by, if you like, advertising.

Noam Chomsky

#8. I do, and I hunt. I like small horses best. They're like small men. They have more to prove so they take all the more risks and jump higher and faster than all the rest.

Sienna Guillory

#9. Victory is only wrested by running risks.

Winston Churchill

#10. Never again work in the same conditions in whichyou made your first film. It's good to take risks, but not thatmuch risk.

Pedro Almodovar

#11. Increasing public awareness of risks of nuclear conflict is the core element of any successful nuclear-weapons-free world strategy.

Amit Ray

#12. Drinking water that does not meet a federal health guideline will not necessarily make someone ill. Many contaminants are hazardous only if consumed for years. And some researchers argue that even toxic chemicals, when consumed at extremely low doses over long periods, pose few risks.

Charles Duhigg

#13. Sometimes playing it safe can be just as bad as taking risks.

Jana Deleon

#14. I learned to drive when I was 35. I'm driving like an old lady and very close to the wheel. I don't take many risks, and when people yell at me I say 'sorry, sorry, sorry!' I don't have road rage yet.

Michel Gondry

#15. Kids whose puberty begins too soon face not just psychological risks, but physical ones too, with an increased likelihood of cancer, as well as skeletal changes that could prevent them from attaining their full adult height.

Jeffrey Kluger

#16. A man sits as many risks as he runs.

Henry David Thoreau

#17. There is no greatness without taking risks.

Suzanne Yoculan

#18. If you fear to take risks, your life will always be risky.

Debasish Mridha

#19. All real change requires risk. You must take risks every day of your life. You must get up each morning and ask ... : What can I do that is different?

Debbie Ford

#20. You've got to let me make my own decisions, take my own risks, and make my own mistakes, and let me learn from them. I need to walk before I can run

E.L. James

#21. Esther was more man than most men I know, myself included. Many of us - men and women - are extremely passive and cowardly. We don't take risks for God because we are obsessed with safety, security, and most of all, with the future.

Kevin DeYoung

#22. It's one of the ironies of investing. The rich can afford to take risks, but they don't need to. The poor need to take risks, but they often can't afford to.

Jonathan Clements

#23. No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary ...

Alan Watts

#24. Most people today don't feel that Barack Obama is on our side. We sense he's incapable of doing what Roosevelt did, of loving his country so much that he was willing to run great risks in order to advance its cause, to free others from a new Dark Age - and protect our own liberty in the process.

Arthur L. Herman

#25. Trust firmly in your luck, cling to your happiness, and dare to take risks.

Rene Char

#26. 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

#27. For me, the risks in terms of opening that brewpub were fairly high. I put my house up as collateral, I invested the liquid money I had and two years of my time to get it over, but that's really not much of a risk for what the potential reward was if it worked.

John Hickenlooper

#28. A nation that expects the government to prevent churches from burning, to control the price of bread or gasoline, to secure every job, and to find some villain for every dramatic accident risks an even larger loss of life and liberty.

William A. Niskanen

#29. I can tell you many reasons why environmental stories don't get adequate attention in conventional media. Basically, environmental risks don't fit the norms of journalism. They're incremental. We hate incremental.

Andrew Revkin

#30. - Conspiracy and Betrayal have huge risks
for the Heart of Love. -
Amen, Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans,
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September 23, 2016
Religion of Blue Circle
Amen

Petra Hermans

#31. Ask any experienced defense lawyer: the real risks are for an accused person who is innocent. A guilty defendant has many more options available.

Andrew Vachss

#32. California is a place of invention, a place of courage, a place of vision, a place of the future. People who made California what it is were willing to take risks, think outside convention and build.

Nicolas Berggruen

#33. Every case is different, and how we deal with every case is different. But what's the same is we work it, we do the job, and we take the risks the job demands. That's it.

J.D. Robb

#34. After all, as a taxpayer, if I'm acting as the insurer against losses, I should have the right to say what risks the insured can take.

Jerry A. Webman

#35. To reject censorship after studying the risks involved is very well. To reject it ex cathedra, in the tones of Calvin pronouncing a dogma, eyes and mind closed to the possible consequences, the even marginally possible, is to make things too comfortable for oneself.

Storm Jameson

#36. Any country that grants asylum to Snowden risks retaliation from the United States, including diplomatic isolation and costly trade sanctions. Several don't seem to care.

Stephen Kinzer

#37. I'm mischievous. The idea of taking risks and having real-world consequences energizes me.

Shepard Fairey

#38. There is no playing safe with me any longer. I only take huge risks. I know this means I can lose big time, but so long as there is a chance that I will win big time, I will take it

Sahndra Fon Dufe

#39. Three things faith does: it reckons on God; it risks with God (and) it rests in God.

Leonard Ravenhill

#40. I can assure you, as long as I'm here, as long as my colleagues are here, we do know about risks.

Oswald Grubel

#41. hockey field at Red Maids' School. By the time Emma had explained why she crossed the Atlantic despite the risks involved, they were both staring at her as if she'd just landed from

Jeffrey Archer

#42. But was any future, anyone's future, unfraught by hazards of some sort? The only security was death. So long as one wanted to go on living on had to accept the risks. Well, she accepted them...

Winston Graham

#43. Beer does not satisfy magic, however. So the magic ordered a round of Harvey Wallbangers. But it takes more than vodka to fuel magic. It takes risks. It takes EXTREMES.

Tom Robbins

#44. Some researchers consider lack of exercise to be a greater risk factor for decreased life expectancy than the combined risks posed by cigarette smoking, obesity, hypertension, and high cholesterol.

Rich Snyder DO

#45. Illegal immigrants make a rational choice when they decide to violate our immigration laws. They weigh the costs, including the risks of getting caught, against the benefits of a better life.

Jan C. Ting

#46. New flood maps in many states have raised the estimation of flood risks along rivers, streams and oceans, adding many properties to flood zones for the first time.

Bill Dedman

#47. All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think.

Ken Robinson

#48. You only live to regret the risks you didn't take.

Molly McDonnell

#49. When you experience a failure as a leader, don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks.

Naveen Jain

#50. Your brain can only process a tiny portion of your environment,
It risks being overwhelmed by the volume
of information that bombards you every waking moment.
Your brain compensates by filtering out the 99.9 percent of
your environment that doesn't matter to you.

Scott Adams

#51. In America, anybody can be president.
That's one of the risks you take.

Adlai E. Stevenson II

#52. One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honour or observation.

Walter Scott

#53. Show me a Scorsese film, and I'll show you a movie where he's taken risks. It's just his nature. He's an artist, and artists take risks. He always does what he believes in.

Irwin Winkler

#54. Writing didn't carry the same risks as speaking. You couldn't be shouted down or stared at. The page was both a proxy and a shield.

Samantha Shannon

#55. Once we admit that the public sector takes an immense amount of risk along the entire innovation chain, it becomes crucial to find ways to share both risks and rewards.

Mariana Mazzucato

#56. If you don't take risks, you don't drink champagne.

Garry Kasparov

#57. In most parts of the world, starting a company that goes bust is dubbed a 'failure.' In Silicon Valley, we call this 'gaining experience.' We are willing to take the risks that are inherent for innovation.

Sebastian Thrun

#58. Boycott is not a principle. When it becomes one, it itself risks becoming exclusive and racist. No boycott, in our sense of the term, should be directed against an individual, a people, or a nation as such.

John Berger

#59. You have to take risks on policy. You can't be a politician, wringing your hands, worried about what the public opinion polls are saying or worried about the negative attacks. If you believe in something, go fight for it.

Scott Pelley

#60. People at the University of Portland were accepting and loving and open-minded. When you have a safety net, it allows you to take risks.

Kunal Nayyar

#61. Even if security from the cradle to the grave could eliminate [all] the risks of life, it would [still] be a dead hand on the creative spirit of the American people.

Herbert Hoover

#62. Be wise enough not to be reckless, but brave enough to take great risks.

Frank Warren

#63. You don't want to wake up and realize you could have been happy, that the risks would have been worth it, but you dwindled away your chances.

Sarah Noffke

#64. We [Americans] are a nation of immigrants. We all understand what this country has become because talent from all around the world wants to come here, people who are willing to take risks, people who want to build on their dreams and make sure their kids have an - even bigger dreams than they have.

Barack Obama

#65. To create an organization that's adaptable and innovative, people need the freedom to challenge precedent, to 'waste' time, to go outside of channels, to experiment, to take risks and to follow their passions.

Gary Hamel

#66. Sisters: talk to each other, be connected and informed, form women's circles, share your stories, work together, and take risks. Together we are invincible.

Isabel Allende

#67. In the new economy, we all have to be entrepreneurs with our own lives - with all the rewards and risks and, yes, anxieties that entails.

Nina Easton

#68. The risks of liberty we must let everyone take; but the risks of ignorance and self-helplessness are another matter.

George Bernard Shaw

#69. But while compliant raise-your-hand-and-speak-when-called-on behaviors might be rewarded in school, they are less valued in the workplace. Career progression often depends upon taking risks and advocating for oneself
traits that girls are discouraged from exhibiting.

Sheryl Sandberg

#70. Every day as Chancellor I see alerts telling me of risks around the world.

George Osborne

#71. Let it never be said of this generation of Americans that we became so obsessed with failure that we refused to take risks that could further the cause of peace and freedom in the world.

Ronald Reagan

#72. Change makers take risks and are ready to die for excellence than to give excuses and live for mediocrity.

Israelmore Ayivor

#73. If you are not actively seeking and creating opportunities, which always contain an element of risk, you are actually exposing yourself to more serious risks in the long term.

Tony Buzan

#74. I knew I really had to put down a good run. I played it safe, and took risks when I could, and I came in the fastest, I guess.

Julia Mancuso

#75. He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future.

Francisco De Quevedo

#76. The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

George Edward Woodberry

#77. She understood the risks, the limits, the possible consequences, and she was willing to accept all of that in return for the sheer joy of being with him. One night with him ... one hundred ... whatever fate allowed her, she would take.

Lisa Kleypas

#78. You can't have a hit every time. The main thing is to keep on working and not be afraid to take risks. It's better to do something that's not perfect and successful every time. It's important to be fearless and move forward, to learn from what went wrong.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#79. For people choosing to use a network marketing system to build a business in the B quadrant, the price of entry is a lot lower, the risks are lower, and the education and support are there to guide you through this personal development process.

Robert Kiyosaki

#80. Why race? The need to be tested, perhaps; the need to take risks; and the chance to be number one.

George A. Sheehan

#81. There are many who live Life in Fear, without taking risks. They don't take Chances. Alas! Not only are they missing chances, they are missing Life itself! -RVM

R.v.m.

#82. I do think you have to scare yourself. That's where your creativity or your growth comes from. Scaring yourself, challenging yourself, taking those risks, and not caring about what anyone thinks.

Rita Wilson

#83. Behind all the surface composure, there seemed to be a great darkness: an urge to test himself, to take risks, to haunt the edges of things.

Paul Auster

#84. There are five freedoms:
The freedom to see and hear what is;
The freedom to say what you feel and think;
The freedom to feel what you actually feel;
The freedom to ask for what you want;
The freedom to take risks on your own behalf.

Virginia Satir

#85. Find what you love and find a way to make that part of your every day. You have to find the confidence to take certain risks. You're going to hear a lot of no's before you get to the yes'. It's important to have that confidence to overcome that and know it's part of trying to grow something big

Whitney Port

#86. Today, I think a CFO needs to be more of an operating CFO: someone who's using the financial data and the data of the company to help drive strategy, the allocation of capital, and the management of risks.

Anthony Noto

#87. We need to educate students to be critical agents, to learn how to take risks, engage in thoughtful dialogue, and taking on the crucial issue what it means to be socially responsible.

Henry Giroux

#88. My priest tells me i should not date a mormon but im just too in love with you that i'm willing to take risks

Ellen Hopkins

#89. It's taken me a long time to learn to accept the risks and just be willing to try it over and over again.

Uma Thurman

#90. Why reproduce if you believe the world is ending?
Because the world is always ending for each of us and if one begins to withdraw from the possibilities of experience, then no one would take any of the risks involved with love.

Ben Lerner

#91. They aren't afraid to take risks, but they don't gamble. They are generous but not extravagant. They thrive on beauty of economics, the fact that it is both art and science.

Susan Meissner

#92. Despite the fact that logic tells us that we should not trust anyone, in any situation where the unknown variables are too many or the risks too high, we nevertheless go ahead and take what can only be called a leap of faith.

David Amerland

#93. I'm prepared to take risks. And every movie that I do is a risk. No one knows what the movie is going out turn out like.

Jason Statham

#94. Rihanna takes risks, and I love a woman who takes risks. It just goes to show you have your own mind and your own way of thinking.

Nayvadius Cash

#95. My reason for arguing against abolishing these types of sports isn't some kind of lofty, philosophical rationale. It's just that I did it and I liked it. It comes down to a libertarian issue for me. I feel that if I know the risks and I want to take them, I should be allowed to do so.

Jonathan Gottschall

#96. I want to show up to work and take risks. I don't ever want to play it safe.

James Badge Dale

#97. I'd rather take risks than make something that's cookie cutter.

Sandra Bullock

#98. When something is iconic, if you're very careful and delicate, you can add onto that iconography. It can expand. People have attached so much to it themselves, and connected to it, so the risks are big, but the potential is enormous, at the same time.

Hugh Dancy

#99. We need banks and financiers and entrepreneurs to take risks because that's how economies grow over time.

Greg Ip

#100. U.S. wrestling is more of a scrambling style where guys take a lot of risks. You could watch a match in the states and see a score of 18-12. There is going to be a lot of action, transitions and guys going back and forth and trading points.

Gilbert Melendez