Risk Quotes - Page 24

In life, it's between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity

An artist should be taking risks. That's the whole idea of being an artist.

Democracy is an extraordinary adventure. It's difficult, full of daring and risk and danger. But it's the greatest gift we have.

In financial services, if you want to be the best in the industry, you first have to be the best in risk management and credit quality. It's the foundation for every other measure of success. There's almost no room for error.

You fill up the frame with feelings, energy, discovery, and risk, and leave room enough for someone else to get in there.

Inequality has risen to the point that it seems to me worthwhile for the U.S. to seriously consider taking the risk of making our economy more rewarding for more of the people.

Just think of the trust that often exists in soldiers. Within their own unit, you could say they have to trust each other. A spirit of camaraderie builds up and, in the end, they will risk their lives for each other. They may even go so far as to dehumanise the other, enemy group - a mechanism you can also observe in chimps.

There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.

If you have something at risk, you think differently.

Outperforming the market with low volatility on a consistent basis is an impossibility. I outperformed the market for 30-odd years, but not with low volatility.

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

You feel the call. That's the important thing. Now answer it as fully as you can. Take the risk to let all that is in you, out. Escape into the open.

If you put these five things together - you can't use money to attract talent, you can't advertise, you can't take risks, you can't invest in long-term results, and you don't have a stock market - then we have just put the humanitarian sector at the most extreme disadvantage to the for-profit sector on every level, and then we call the whole system charity, as if there is something incredibly sweet about it.

Success also requires the courage to risk disapproval. Most independent thought, new ideas, or endeavors beyond the common measure are greeted with disapproval, and ranging from skepticism and ridicule to violent outrage. To persevere in anything exceptional requires inner strength and the unshakable conviction that you are right.

We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.

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

Faith is a record of great risks taken.

Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.

Risk discomfort and solitude for understanding.

The most basic problem is that performance appraisals often don't accurately assess performance.

No one can measure the loss of business that may arise from a defective item that goes out to a customer.

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

Most individuals work much harder to hang on to what they have than to take the necessary risk to shoot for their dreams.

You cannot improve your future if you are not willing to try something new and risk making mistakes and learning from them

Of all evil-doers, the American is most to be feared. He uses more ingenuity in the planning of his projects and will take greater risks in carrying them out than any other malefactor on earth.