“It was a calculated risk.” “It was cross-your-fingers-and-hope-for-the-best. Believe me, I know the difference.” — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
The biggest rewards in life are found outside your comfort zone. Live with it. Fear and risk are prerequisites if you want… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
Don't short many stocks. Instead they hedge for tail risk with CDS and options. They are happy to incur illiquidity — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture. — William James Copy Share Image
Risk analysis can cater to any sort of hazard, but their profession owes its existence to a relatively narrow band of possible… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
I don't believe in pitfalls. I believe in taking risks and not doing the same thing twice. — Guy Laliberte Copy Share Image
When you remove the risk, you remove the challenge. When you remove the challenge, you wither on the vine. — Alex Lowe Copy Share Image
Love is so fragile and so often fatal. I am amazed when people are brave enough to risk it. — Edna Buchanan Copy Share Image
I’m not a risk taker. But astronauts are professionals, so you get out on the field and play ball. I tried to… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
There is absolutely nothing special about walking on a rope stretched along the ground. Where there is no risk, there can be… — Ray Kroc Copy Share Image
Our approach to existential risks cannot be one of trial-and-error. There is no opportunity to learn from errors. The reactive approach -… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
“I want to set the example my mother set for me: a strong female role model who faces challenges takes risks and… — Mireya Mayor Copy Share Image
There are moments when it frightens us, threatening to expose us as inauthentic. Well, the big-time impostors we read about in literature… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
If we only practice compassion on the mind level, we run a great risk of our compassion being just talk. As we… — Gelek Rimpoche Copy Share Image
The strategy we've adopted precludes our following standard diversification dogma. Many pundits would therefore say the strategy must be riskier than that… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
California is a place of invention, a place of courage, a place of vision, a place of the future. People who made… — Nicolas Berggruen Copy Share Image
At no point in history have so many non-risk-takers, that is, those with no personal exposure, exerted so much control. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Life is indeed a gamble, the ultimate game of chance, based purely upon having the ability to make the right choices at… — Steven Redhead Copy Share Image
“I would rather listen to someone who tried and failed than someone who dreamed but never tried.” — Jennifer Coletta Copy Share Image
It's this simple: If I never try anything, I never learn anything. If I never take a risk, I stay where I… — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
Today, the technology is there to give early and normally ample warning when a powerful tornado approaches. When a tornado strikes, all… — Spencer Bachus Copy Share Image
''Go for someone whose not only proud and grateful,but someone who will take every risk every effort just to be with you.'' — Emily Hamilton Copy Share Image
I know that love is about power, too. Who gives, who takes. Who is willing to risk showing their true self. — Alison Goodman Copy Share Image
People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We want to be on the winning team, but at the risk of turning our backs on the losers, no, it is… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
Personal style is about taking a risk, trying something unexpected, and having fun with fashion, but always being true to yourself. — Ralph Lauren Copy Share Image
I fear the future I wish for my children is at risk, so I'm taking action. Please join me... — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Take risks in your life in the pursuit of your dreams, and support the ones you love when they take risks. — Adrian Ballinger Copy Share Image
Looking at the individuals who suffered the most during the hurricane, you could see that those with underlying medical problems were at… — Richard E. Besser Copy Share Image
Thoughtfully assessing and addressing enterprise risk and placing a high value on corporate transparency can protect the one thing we cannot afford… — Dale E. Jones Copy Share Image
“those who succeed in the modern marketplace are those who take calculated but courageous risks.” — Dale Partridge Copy Share Image
You must have love as the core; it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and… — Kenny Loggins Copy Share Image
Management must provide employees with tools that will enable them to do their jobs better, and with encouragement to use these tools.… — George E. P. Box Copy Share Image
I've got to take chances and get out there. What are you going to do, sit home and knit? I don't knit. — Cybill Shepherd Copy Share Image
As a player you can't be too worried if you take a risk and whether it's not going to come off. — Ross Barkley Copy Share Image
There's risk in virtually everything you do. I tend to focus more on the reward channel. — Oliver Luck Copy Share Image
I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell… — Peter Eisenman Copy Share Image
I am, beneath everything else, a fan. I was fixed in this mode as a young boy and am awed by people… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
It has always amazed and humbled me to how the risk to bloom can seem so insurmountable beforehand and so inevitably freeing… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
