Risk Quote by Cal Newport Download Open image ““Little Bets, and it was written by a former venture capitalist named Peter Sims.”” — Cal Newport ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Risk
“people gamble to lose money. They come to the casinos for the moment in which they feel alive, to ride the spinning wheel and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Venture capitalists make money by buying shares in companies and subsequently selling those shares for more than the original investment. It’s a simple game… — Bill Snow Copy Share Image
“Fortune-telling was quantum betting, a competitive scrying of variably likely outcomes.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“Who’s to say that gamblers don’t really understand it better than anyone else? Isn’t everything worthwhile a gamble? Can’t good come around sometimes through… — Tartt Donna Copy Share Image
“No one knows how to gamble and win, that’s why they call it gambling.” — Kathryn Smith Copy Share Image
“The casino played a song of its own—slot machines dinging, chips clacking as the dealer passed them out to the players at the tables,… — Michelle Madow Copy Share Image
“The syndicate makes the profit. And everybody has a share.” — Joseph Heller Catch 22 Copy Share Image
“We've been sold a dream of savings and investing that had no basis in any history or reality. We were participants in a vast… — Helaine Olen Copy Share Image
“You know what a publisher is? He’s a failed writer whose father was rich enough that he’s able to appropriate other people’s talents.” — Joël Dicker Copy Share Image
“Have you met a banker, who is not interested in money? He loves the game, not the cash! You should bet on him.” — Csaba Gabor Copy Share Image
“the importance of ability. The things that make a great job great, I discovered, are rare and valuable. If you want them in your… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“many software companies now deploy the Scrum project management methodology, which replaces a lot of this ad hoc messaging with regular, highly structured, and… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“when paying more than $1,000 a day to write the chapter in a suite of an old hotel down the street from a Hogwarts-style… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“When deciding whether to follow an appealing pursuit that will introduce more control into your work life, seek evidence of whether people are willing… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“Let your mind become a lens, thanks to the converging rays of attention; let your soul be all intent on whatever it is that… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“study by Harvard Business School professor Leslie Perlow. In this study, a group of management consultants were asked to disconnect for a full day… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“if it’s rare and valuable, it’s not easy to get. This insight brought me into the world of performance science, where I encountered the… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“Here’s the routine: Once a week I require myself to summarize in my “bible” a paper I think might be relevant to my research.… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“the journalist philosophy. This name is a nod to the fact that journalists, like Walter Isaacson, are trained to shift into a writing mode… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“Not long into his 2010 TED talk on creativity and leadership, Derek Sivers plays a video clip of a crowd at an outdoor concert.… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“Kirk’s path to American Treasures was incremental. He didn’t decide out of nowhere that he wanted to host a television show and then work… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
Against his own will, almost, Will felt himself understanding; he would have done anything, he thought, told any lie, taken any risk, to make… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
When you stop a dictator, there are always risks. But there are greater risks in not stopping a dictator. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
I knew I really had to put down a good run. I played it safe, and took risks when I could, and I came… — Julia Mancuso Copy Share Image
As an adventurer...I try to protect against the downside. I make sure I have covered as many eventualities as I can. In the end,… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
There are times when we can feel destiny close around us like a fist around a doorknob. Sure, we can resist. But a knob… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Climate change poses clear, catastrophic threats. We may not agree on the extent, but we certainly can't afford the risk of inaction. — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
The risk of developing carcinoma of the lung increases steadily as the amount smoked increases. If the risk among non-smokers is taken as unity… — Richard Doll Copy Share Image
