Risk Quotes - Page 42

Ours was such a delicious risk. My being abruptly and altogether Ecstatic and be-stilled.

This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open.

Don't be afraid to tread new ground, but do a sanity test.

You take the risk of being rejected.

The artist must prophesy not in the sense that he foretells things to come, but in the sense that he tells his audience, at the risk of their displeasure, the secrets of their own hearts

Men of great spirit are at high risk at a time when small souls rule the world.

Here at home, ... while the most likely scenario remains solid growth and low inflation -- subject to the usual ups and downs -- certain sectors have been impacted by the crisis, some because of increased imports and others because of decreased exports. Moreover, problems in the global economy do constitute a risk to all our overall economic well-being.

Most investors say "Don't take risks." The rich investor takes risks.

Someone who seeks low-risk investments never really feels investing is safe and someone who is always right eventually winds up wrong

Effective management always means asking the right question.

I agree with a lot of the points in Taleb's book, but I don't agree with many of his conclusions. It seems to me that he rightly points out that risk managers miss a lot of the risks, but the conclusion is that he draws, is that we should abandon risk management, whereas my conclusion is we should improve it.

It may seem like a big risk to follow your dream, but isn't the greatest risk of all to miss your life?

The reward is in the risk.

Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.

Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little.

You have to take risks.

Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks.

Only the really young are fearless, have the optimism, the romanticism to take unimaginable risks.

I think women are much stronger than men in society. We take more risks than they do in general.

There is nothing nobler than risking your life for your country.

A system, artificially stabilized, and of course you have hidden risks under the surface, and you don't know where the risks are.

When you train your employees to be risk averse, then you're preparing your whole company to be reward challenged.

I've not been afraid to take risks, be resolute and passionate about purpose, and inspire people to do things that maybe they thought weren't possible.

Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions.