Risks Quotes
984 Risks quotes by 776 unique authors
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The securitisation of mortgages added a new dimension of systemic risk. Financial engineers claimed they were reducing risks through geographic diversification: in fact they were…
— George Soros
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If I'm not free to fail, I'm not free to take risks and everything in life that's worth doing involves a willingness to take a…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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It is vital that we raise awareness of the risks faced by drug misusers.
— Unknown Author
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Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people
— Phillip Adams
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You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing.
— Greg LeMond
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With the socialization of the health care system through institutions such as Medicaid and Medicare and the regulation of the insurance industry (by restricting an…
— Hans-Hermann Hoppe
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I feel that adolescence has served its purpose when a person arrives at adulthood with a strong sense of self-esteem, the ability to relate intimately,…
— Virginia Satir
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Any doctor will admit that any drug can have side effects, and that writing a prescription involves weighing the potential benefits against the risks.
— Mark Udall
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A failure often does not have to be a failure at all. However, you have to be ready for it-will you admit when things go…
— Atul Gawande
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There's a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.
— Elon Musk
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It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, [for] all of life is risk exercise.…
— William Sloane Coffin
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God is not a magic eight ball we shake up and peer into whenever we have a decision to make. He is a good God…
— Kevin DeYoung
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All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think,
— Ken Robinson
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Most of these students are so conditioned to success that they become afraid to take risks. They have been taught from a young age by…
— Chris Hedges
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The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business in to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down. His trained hand…
— Eddie Rickenbacker
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There are pilots and there are pilots; with the good ones, it is inborn. You can't teach it. If you are a fighter pilot, you…
— Robin Olds
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When you sell options, you get paid for assuming risk. That can be a profitable business, but it does not mix well with the risks…
— George Soros
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For my own part, I did not see and did not appreciate what the risks were with securitization, the credit ratings agencies, the shadow banking…
— Janet Yellen
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I believe that the general growth in large [financial] institutions have occurred in the context of an underlying structure of markets in which many of…
— Alan Greenspan
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The use of a growing array of derivatives and the related application of more-sophisticated approaches to measuring and managing risk are key factors underpinning the…
— Alan Greenspan
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All corporatism – even when practised in societies where hard work, enterprise and cooperation are as highly valued as in Korea – encourages inflexibility, discourages…
— Margaret Thatcher
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Faith in the guidance of Spirit gives you the courage to take risks, because you're assured that whatever happens, a Higher Power is on your…
— Colette Baron-Reid
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In the spiritual life it is not necessary to have a complete map of the path in order to begin traveling. On the contrary, having…
— Meher Baba
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Achievement must be made against the possibility of failure, against the risk of defeat. It is no achievement to walk a tightrope laid flat on…
— Ray Kroc
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As a co-chair of the State's 2010 Olympics Task Force, I am working to make sure our border crossings are ready to handle the risks…
— Rick Larsen
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