Risk Quotes

3639 Risk quotes by 2461 unique authors

We gauge risk literally hundreds of times per day, usually well and often subconsciously. We start assessing risk before the disaster even happens. We are… — Amanda Ripley
The public totally discounts low-probability high-consequence events. The individual says, it's not going to be this plane, this bus, this time. — Amanda Ripley
If you spend more than 13 minutes analyzing economic and market forecasts, you've wasted 10 minutes — Peter Lynch
Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking. — Alan Greenspan
One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose. — Randy Pausch
Thoughtfully assessing and addressing enterprise risk and placing a high value on corporate transparency can protect the one thing we cannot afford to lose: trust. — Unknown Author
Risk is just an expensive substitute for information. — Unknown Author
If you don't know the Jewelry, know the Jeweller — Warren Buffett
Risk is a function of how poorly a strategy will perform if the 'wrong' scenario occurs. — Michael Porter
Stress is not bad but a necessary part of facing life's challenges. Whilst the dreamers maintain the delusion that 'all accidents are preventable' the rest… — Rob Long
If we accept that there is no such thing as 'zero risk' then we should not spin the meaning of words with assertions such as… — Rob Long
We make thousands of decisions everyday in automatic mode without a mistake. Yet we don't reflect and celebrate this wonderful mode of human decision making… — Rob Long
Measuring Safety Performance by the number of injuries you have is like measuring parenting by the number of smacks you give — Robert Long
The real enemy of safety is not non-compliance but non-thinking — Rob Long
A man sits as many risks as he runs. — Henry David Thoreau
I've never stayed awake at night over a chance I took that failed, but I've stayed awake over chances I didn't take. — Garth Brooks
Going after anything worthwile in life entailed risk, of course. A man of ambition and courage didn't let that stop or delay him. A man… — John Jakes
If it doesn't make you sweat, it's not worth it. If it's not hard to get, why go for it? — Nancy A. Collins
For a dying man it is not a difficult decision [to agree to become the world's first heart transplant] ... because he knows he is… — Christiaan Barnard
It is an occupational risk of biologists to claim, towards the end of their careers, that the problems which they have not solved are insoluble. — John Maynard Smith
It is easy to follow, but it is uninteresting to do easy things. We find out about ourselves only when we take risks, when we… — Magdalena Abakanowicz
A good coach encourages the same type of resilience in the people they work with. They encourage them to take risks. If the risk results… — Lord Byron
I kind of hate to be the voice of doom, but I just can't see how prices can't go down. I think people have actually… — Sarah Beeny
I learned to embrace risk, as long as it was well thought out and, in a worst-case scenario, I'd still land on my feet. — Eli Broad
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

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