Risk Avoidance Quotes

#1. The recreation of Neanderthals would be mainly a question of societal risk avoidance.

George M. Church

#2. Much of the research into humans' risk-avoidance machinery shows that it is antiquated and unfit for the modern world; it is made to counter repeatable attacks and learn from specifics. If someone narrowly escapes being eaten by a tiger in a certain cave, then he learns to avoid that cave.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#3. The consequences are not trivial: It means that rational thinking has little, very little, to do with risk avoidance. Much of what rational thinking seems to do is rationalize one's actions by fitting some logic to them.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#4. Right at the core, the mainstream has it backwards. Warren Buffett often quips that the first rule of investing is to not lose money, and the second rule is to not forget the first rule. Yet few investors approach the world with such a strict standard of risk avoidance.

Seth Klarman

#5. You show me a politician with his heels ten feet in the air, and by Judas priest, Ill show you an honest politician.

Dalton Trumbo

#6. In even the happiest love story, the World wins at last.

Mason Cooley

#7. Think about your own life. Are there foods or drinks that "call your name" in your weakest moments - like maybe at night in front of the TV? Are there certain "treats" you can hardly resist when they're in your presence? Are there "goodies" that you continue to eat even after you're full?

Josh Bezoni

#8. I can write songs, but I'm not gonna really feel good about the song unless it feels like me, and I'm not gonna release a song or put it on an album or play it in concert unless it really feels like me.

Brett Dennen

#9. Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Natalie Clifford Barney

#10. And indeed, human beings in general are fond, even inordinately fond, of being trampled on, have you noticed that? But of women it's especially true. One might even say they that can't get along without it.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#11. A bacteriologist is a man whose conversation always start with the germ of an idea.

Evan Esar

#12. I love how Duran Duran had the female fan base, then it grew until males started to like them, too.

Ashton Irwin

#13. When we long for life without difficulty,
remind us that oaks grow strong under contrary winds
and diamonds are made under pressure.

Peter Marshall

#14. It's a weird thing. Reservations were meant to be prisons, you know? Indians were supposed to move onto reservations and die. We were supposed to disappear. But somehow or another, Indians have forgotten the reservations were meant to be death camps.

Sherman Alexie

#15. [High income tax rates] not only check consumption but discourage investment and encourage ... the avoidance of taxes [rather] than the production of goods.[ ... ]Our present tax system ... reduces the financial incentives for personal effort, investment, and risk-taking.

John F. Kennedy

#16. Avoidance of risk is the greatest risk of all.

Henry Cloud

#17. I lay my worries at Your feet. Thank You, Lord, for the mighty ways You deliver me. You are my rock and shield.

Judith Costello

#18. The vision is to restore Avon to an iconic beauty brand and to our leadership position in global direct selling, as well as continuing to ensure that we live up to our mission of empowering women.

Sheri McCoy

#19. The traditional approach to an unknown risk is avoidance.

James F. Clapp III

#20. If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.

Oswald Chambers

#21. The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of all.

Craig D. Lounsbrough