Less Quote by Karl Iagnemma

We pride ourselves on being the only species that understands the concept of risk, yet we have a confounding habit of worrying about mere…

— Jeffrey Kluger

We historians are increasingly using experimental psychology to understand the way we act. It is becoming very clear that our ability to evaluate risk…

— Niall Ferguson

We massively exaggerate the exotic risks we can least control and massively undervalue the mundane risks we can control.

— David L. Katz

“She notes how advances in brain imaging technology prove that people's brains are wired to overestimate risk, exaggerate its consequences, and underestimate their ability…

— James M. Kouzes

“If we let go of worrying about risk we can more usefully focus our attention on figuring out which risks are crazy and which…

— Ben Hunt-Davis

We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events.

— Daniel Kahneman

“The key is having the higher-level perspective to make fast and accurate judgments on what the real risks are without getting bogged down in…

— Ray Dalio

“Most people overestimate risk, failure, and danger and underestimate the value of being curious.”

— Todd Kashdan

We live in a world where there are many risks, and it's high time we start taking seriously which ones we should be worried…

— Lisa Randall

“Tiny risks are a part of life and most of them can be further reduced (or virtually eliminated) by the simple application of common…

— Gever Tulley

High-consequence risks have a distinctive quality. The more calamitous the hazards they involve, the less we have any real experience of what we risk:…

— Anthony Giddens

When everyone feels that risks are at their minimum, over-confidence can take over and elementary precautions start to get watered down.

— Ian Macfarlane