Risk Quotes - Page 55

When we allow ourselves to become vulnerable, to take chances, and to risk our pride, that is when we find our own glory.

Those who see what's obvious aren't necessarily brighter than others. They're just more likely to observe that the emperor is naked. Like children, they see what's actually there. Their perceptions are less clouded by belief systems, taboos, habits of thought. One responsibility of management--an important one--is to call attention to the invisible obvious, pointing it out as a child does (sometimes to the embarrassment of adults). Doing so also requires supporting employees who take that risk, too, and other risks as well.

Business is the force of change. Business is essential to solving the climate crisis, because this is what business is best at: innovating, changing, addressing risks, searching for opportunities. There is no more vital task

An entrepreneur is somebody who is taking bold risks, is often doing things that have never been done before, trying to do things better. And an adventurer is challenging themselves, often doing things that have never been done before, seeing what they're capable of. In both cases, you've got to protect against the downside.

Every risk is worth taking as long as it's for a good cause, and contributes to a good life.

What would our lives be like without tests, odds against us, adventure, risk?

...risk is one of the keys that move you from fear to freedom.

I've always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks.

So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along unexplored routes, having no reason to hope for success, but merely being willing to risk the experiment of finding whether the truth they seek lies there.

As a test of the closeness of your relationship with the world, sex could never be a patch on being murdered. (That's when someone really does risk his life for you.)

We have witnessed the most educated, successful, and monied professionals in the country put their companies - not to mention their own liberty - at risk by engaging in flagrant and foolhardy illegal conduct.

When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able to do everything. But that is not so. God is not a demiurge [demigod] or a magician, but the Creator who gives being to all entities. Evolution in nature is not opposed to the notion of Creation, because evolution presupposes the creation of beings that evolve.

Not only would I say that the family is important for the evangelization of the new world. The family is important, and it is necessary for the survival of humanity. Without the family, the cultural survival of the human race would be at risk. The family, whether we like it or not, is the foundation.

In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square

My career was always full of risks one way or another, and that's the way I like it.

Tomorrow always arrives. It is always different. And even the mightiest company is in trouble if it has not worked on the future. Being surprised by what happens is a risk that even the largest and richest company cannot afford, and even the smallest business need not run.

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

Lord, bless our week. Help us to take all the necessary risks to become the person we always wanted to be.

The world only gets better because people risk something to make it better. Thanks Egyptians

You had to take risks, follow some paths and abandon others.

It's always necessary to know when a stage of one's life has ended. If you stubbornly cling to it after the need has passed, you lose the joy and meaning of the rest. And you risk being shaken to your senses by God.

You are protected. But if you don't take risks, God will retreat and become only a subject of philosophical speculation.

We have already seen some instances of systemic risk in recent times in the Asian financial crisis. But what sparked off the Asian financial crisis? Automated trading programmes!

The risk of failure is part of the fun of what I do.

When you've got a great business going, you go open another and take the risk of losing the whole thing. It's fun!