The mission of professional mountain climbers is almost impossibly difficult by design: Their very livelihood is based on achieving the unprecedented. Their… — Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi Copy Share Image
Life is like a bowling alley, once you take a risk and release the ball you never know what you're going to… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays… — Larry Elder Copy Share Image
The only way I'm comfortable with a new album is if I'm taking a new risk. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I… — Joshua Lederberg Copy Share Image
I think that if your approach is one where you don't want to alienate anybody, you're going to have to soften the… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
We have at least 125 communities in Arizona at risk from wildfire, not because of review processes or litigation delays but because… — Janet Napolitano Copy Share Image
We see that Pakistan is continuing to provide safe harbor havens inside of Pakistan for terrorists who present risks to the United… — Mike Pompeo Copy Share Image
“One sticking point was that Jobs wanted his payout to be in cash. Amelio insisted that he needed to "have skin in… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
I've never found an important decision made by a great organization that was made at a point of unanimity. Significant decisions carry… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
If things are ever to move upward, some one must take the first step, and assume the risk of it. No one… — William James Copy Share Image
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. Sure, everybody wants to play God, but for… — Jeffree Star Copy Share Image
If I was prime minister, there would be absolutely zero risk that Brexit wouldn't happen. — Andrea Leadsom Copy Share Image
If you are teaching Muslim sixth formers in a school, and you tell them they can't have their God and Darwin, there… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
One of the challenges associated with a company becoming large is that companies become hierarchical. They become bureaucratic. They become slow. They… — Kenneth C. Frazier Copy Share Image
“Graham developed his core principles, which are at least as valid today as they were during his lifetime: A stock is not… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Companies are increasingly taking responsibility for the safety of the food they sell, rather than risk their brand on a large recall. — Andy Kennedy Copy Share Image
The idea of an entrepreneur is really thinking out of the box and taking risks and stepping up to major challenges. — Steve Case Copy Share Image
Misrepresented its own studies and the concerns of physicians suggesting the drug may increase the risk of heart problems. — Greg Abbott Copy Share Image
As a co-chair of the State's 2010 Olympics Task Force, I am working to make sure our border crossings are ready to… — Rick Larsen Copy Share Image
Children born of married parents in America face a higher risk of seeing them break up than children born of unmarried parents… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
“Maybe freedom really is nothing left to lose. You had it once in childhood, when it was okay to climb a tree,… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
Warren Buffett likes to say that the first rule of investing is "Don't lose money," and the second rule is, "Never forget… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
The big risk to British lives in 2013 is in Afghanistan. Our troops, diplomats and aid workers have made a big contribution… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
You cannot let a fear of failure or a fear of comparison or a fear of judgment stop you from doing what’s… — Charlie Day Copy Share Image
The great danger of dealing with venture capitalists is the 'slow maybe'. — John Doerr Copy Share Image
I think risk-taking is a great adventure. And life should be full of adventures. — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
I have more concerns about potential risks and vulnerabilities than most people. — Nouriel Roubini Copy Share Image
We must be willing to take chances, and take risks and to go for the life and the destiny that we know… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
At the risk of saying you should make a self-indulgent film for your first movie: you should make a self-indulgent film for… — Mark Duplass Copy Share Image
“If you are trying to look clean, neat and avoid casting your nets in trouble waters, you will catch no fish.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I personally have said many times I'd be a hundred percent in equities. That fits my risk profile and my views of… — Laurence D. Fink Copy Share Image
Success requires taking some calculated risks. No one ever succeeded by always playing it safe. — Glenn Shepard Copy Share Image
For most countries, serving the UN's objectives has never seemed worth even the smallest of risks. Member nations do not want a… — Roméo Dallaire Copy Share Image
What went wrong is we had tremendous concentration in the sense we put a lot of our money to work against U.S.… — Vikram Pandit Copy Share Image
Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an… — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
