Risk Quotes · Page 101

I think people are afraid of either failing or succeeding. It takes courage to feel the fear and feel the risk.

— John Assaraf

The risks facing hedge funds are non-linear and more complex than those facing traditional asset classessuch risks are currently not widely appreciated…

— Andrew Lo

In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.

— Tom Clancy

The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to…

— B. C. Forbes

They say life's a gamble, hit my joint and roll the dice. When you living this high, you can't be afraid of…

— Wiz Khalifa

You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk…

— Louise Erdrich

How can you admire a human who consciously embraces the bland, the mediocre, and the safe rather than risk the suffering that…

— Tom Robbins

Soldiers willingly, sometimes foolishly, risk their own lives to keep their comrades out of enemy hands.

— Alex Berenson

There were so many Cuban-Americans upset that we were going to Cuba and I was curious to see why they were so…

— Albert Belle

The financial crisis has underscored how insufficient attention to fundamental corporate governance concepts can have devastating effects on an institution and its…

— Daniele Nouy

“When you feel confident to take huge risks in life and consistently learn from your mistakes, you will eventually pursue your educational,…

— Saaif Alam

“If we are to live ... we must take risks. Else our lives become deaths in all but name. There is no…

— Steven Erikson

“I recalled the afternoon when the two of us stood beating erasers, and Camille confided that she'd done penance for stories -…

— Stuart Dybek

For a dying man it is not a difficult decision [to agree to become the world's first heart transplant] ... because he…

— Christiaan Barnard

While Senator Collins continues to put the Affordable Care Act - and protections for Mainers with pre-existing conditions - at risk, I've…

— Sara Gideon

True love is taking the risk that it won't be a happily-ever-after. True love is joining hands with the man who loves…

— Cara Lockwood

The biggest risk I've ever taken is going on American Idol and trying to be myself. I wasn't going to try too…

— Adam Lambert

Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to…

— Anonymous

Anything that provides you with very, very stable income, very stable conditions, maybe generally stable, that often, it masks real risks, risks…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up.

— Sigmund Freud

“To risk is to willingly place your life in the hand of an unseen God and an unknown future, then to watch…

— Jennie Allen

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

— Harold Hamm

I think the rise of quantitative econometrics and a highly mathematical approach to risk management was the obverse of a decline in…

— Niall Ferguson

Life must be lived with courage, with climbing and risks, else there is no happiness, no hope, no true success, no future.

— Jeanette Lee

I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting.

— Julie Taymor

On our current path, all our great Gulf and Atlantic coast cities are at risk of meeting the same fate as New…

— Joseph J. Romm

“I'm a risk taker and i've always been like that that, especially when it comes to fashion”

— Christina Aguilera

Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk.

— Michael Eisner

As you absorb more mystical kundalini, you will able to perform a few minor miracles. As you do this, you run a…

— Frederick Lenz

I definitely need to use my chances when they come because definitely there wont be many.

— Roger Federer

Often you need to take some risk, but it must be a realistic risk, you can't take a crazy risk.

— Sergei Bubka

“How can you take such a risk? This could mean anything! It could mean nothing at all! Haven’t you heard of fiction?…

— Jason Ellis

Bands are more willing to take risks and we don't need this big label over us anymore telling us what it means…

— Mat McNerney

Twins are a high-risk pregnancy, by definition. The quieter I am, the longer I can keep them growing.

— Jane Pauley

“Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.”

— F.W. Dupee

I like to take wickets and see wickets and chances and I think in T20 cricket you have to risk a boundary…

— Stuart Broad

What part of me was born with the courage to stand in front of strangers and risk rejection?

— William Shatner

If corporate leaders and their acolytes are not slaves to some meritorious social purpose, they run the risk of being enslaved by…

— Gary Hamel

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring…

— Peter Kreeft

You take the risk of being rejected. If you have pretentions to be an artist of any kind, you have to take…

— Roger Waters