Risk Quotes · Page 81

I live in the present because the future is always chancy. When it comes to being with you, I'm willing to take…

— Cinda Williams Chima

I believe that people take risk, and there are rewards if they do well; they should lose if they don’t.

— Harold Ford, Jr

Don't hesitate on something you've been thinking of doing for a while now. Just do it and do not regret your wishes.

— Modestas Rinkevicius

... a speculator is one who runs risks of which he is aware and an investor is one who runs risks of…

— John Maynard Keynes

The great risk is always saying, "how will I communicate what I'm trying to get across to a room full of strangers…

— John Guare

No matter what your decisions are, no matter what your votes are, if you're not playing by the rules, you're taking a…

— Shelley Moore Capito

Putting up your guard against everyone can save you hurt, but what is a fall without the risk? You never know until…

— Anonymous

You shouldn't invest the money if you are looking to use it within five years. Too much risk.

— Michelle Singletary

Often we women are risk averse. I needed the push. Now, more than ever, young women need more seasoned women to provide…

— Jennifer Granholm

Passion is the engagement of our soul with something beyond us, something that helps us put up with or fight against insurmountable…

— Janet Hagberg

I'm a capitalist by conviction and profession. I believe the best economic system is one that rewards entrepreneurship and risk-taking, maximizes customer…

— Gary Hamel

The U.S. has the largest prison population in the world: two million people. One out of every eight prisoners in the world…

— Randall Robinson

The collateralized debt obligation, the CDO, is a structure which allows you to more or less continuously choose how much risk you…

— Robert F. Engle

At the audition, your assignment is to find something new in the song. Something you've never noticed before. A breath carried over,…

— Pete Seeger

I largely agree with those that hold that Government should not in general interfere with the course of the economy merely on…

— John James Cowperthwaite

I really like the way that Jack Nicholson [acts] in particular works. I like the fact that he takes enormous risks. He's…

— Tim Curry

Here's a big risk: Staying with my husband during the blackest time in our marriage. Several years into our marriage, I wanted…

— Sarah Drew

The risk is enormous to Democrats. Even talking about censure or impeachment threatens to really agitate the Republican base.

— Charlie Cook

A person who has not made peace with his losses is likely to accept gambles that would be unacceptable to him otherwise.

— Daniel Kahneman

Suicide is part murder, revenge on those who hurt you, just as murder is part suicide, for a murderer knows he risks…

— Lucy Freeman

If you're taking a risk and you are not scared in some way, you're doing something wrong.

— Jen Sincero

The world is in an extremely dangerous situation, and serious diseases often require the risk of a dangerous cure like the Pasteur…

— Alan Watts

Those in leadership positions who fail to grasp or use the power of stories risk failure for their companies and for themselves.

— John P. Kotter

“If you share too much of yourself, you risk growing into someone who has nothing unacknowledged.”

— Durga Chew-Bose

Most of all I don't want to be bored. That's why I'd rather do something that has some sort of ambition, that…

— Steve Coogan

“Playing it safe might not have hurt anyone, but it wouldn’t have inspired many, either.”

— Alex Staniforth

Nobody wanders his or her way to a dream, and nobody achieves a dream by accident. Don't shortcut the process and risk…

— John C. Maxwell

The United Kingdom has traditionally been a very small market, and even though you had such a creative group of designers, they…

— Natalie Massenet

...one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death.

— Markus Zusak

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

— Paulo Coelho

Their films would probably be better if they'd seen a few more films, which runs counter to this idiotic theory that you…

— Jacques Rivette

So now, I exhort you with this truth: Don't spend all your life playing it safe! Safety is very comfortable, but it…

— Joyce Meyer

We're always hearing about risk-takers whose risks paid off, but they are no braver than those whose risks end in ridicule.

— Frank Skinner

An Englishman is never afraid of being laughed at. He just thinks the other fellow is a fool. But Americans still can't…

— Pearl S. Buck

There's no fun in a perfect life. So make a risk. Take a chance. Go where the wind takes you. Have fun..

— Anonymous

The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is…

— A. R. Ammons

I learned to embrace risk, as long as it was well thought out and, in a worst-case scenario, I'd still land on…

— Eli Broad

Writing is not about making a buck, not about publishers and agents. Writing is not about feeling good. Writing is about pain,…

— Sue Grafton

Network marketing gives people the opportunity, with very low risk and very low financial commitment, to build their own income-generating asset and…

— Robert Kiyosaki

Every time we can't drill a well in America, terrorism is being funded. Every onerous regulation puts American lives at risk.

— Harold Hamm