Risk Quotes - Page 37

To go back is nothing but death; but to go forward is fear of death and life everlasting beyond.

He will risk half his fortune in the stock market with less reflection that he devotes to the selection of a medium-priced automobile.

There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

We're just one cog in this giant machine. You show up and look at all the other cogs like, "Wow, everyone is the best at what they do." You're in really good hands. And that frees you up to play and feel safe, and you can take chances, creatively. You can take risks. I want to show up to work and take risks. I don't ever want to play it safe.

If we ensure access to health care and 'best practice' asthma treatment for children, especially those at high risk, there is the potential to save the health care system billions of dollars.

If we wait till we run no risk, the gospel will never be introduced into the interior.

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

Having cancer empowered me to take more risks. I knew beating cancer was going to shape me, but it wasnt going to be all of me.

A leader must face danger. He must take the risk and the blame, and the brunt of the storm.

Excellent outcomes with much lower intervention rates are achieved at home births. This may be because the overuse of interventions in hospital births introduces risks or the home environment promotes problem-free labors.

When intervening becomes routine, meaning there is no reason for it, only risks remain.

he who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.

In painting, you have to destroy in order to gain... you have got to sacrifice something you are quite pleased with in order to get something better. Of course, it's a risk.

Cognition requires going beyond the information given, to make bets and therefore to risk errors.

Take calculated risks.

Putting Americans at risk for a political reason I think is wrong and I think it's unfortunate.

High leverage is unsafe, not just for a company but the entire economy... LBOs are reducing the safety. Management loses the power to do many things. It has no margin for error and less margin for additional risk.

Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.

For a start, the salary begins to have an attraction and addictiveness all of its own. A regular paycheck and crack cocaine have that in common. In addition, and more to the point, working too long for other people can blunt your desire to take risks. This last factor is crucial, because the ability to live with and embrace risk is what sets apart the financial winners and losers in the world.

You have to know how to read your lie and take a calculated risk when you hit out of the rough.

Bill Cosby spoke out against The Simpsons and there was this kind of evangelical, right-wing sect that was against The Simpsons. Fox was a new network at the time, though, so they were going to take risks.

You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.

‎In today's materialistic world there is a risk of people becoming slaves to money, as though they were simply cogs in a huge money-making machine. This does nothing for human dignity, freedom, and genuine well-being. Wealth should serve humanity, and not the other way around.

Frequent risk-takers have had their fair shares of failures and successes, hence, being confident in reaching their goals, they will usually seem insensitive to whether or not they look foolish or cool to other people.