Boards Quote by Patrick Dixon

“Risk is what you control and fortune is really all about risk. Bottom Line: Fortune comes from big money bets on very low probability…

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

Even very low-probability events can, and indeed do, occur.

— Gavin Extence

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

High valuations entail high risks.

— Benjamin Graham

Groundbreaking research involves a high level of risk.

— Conor Lamb

We are all vulnerable to the tendency to overestimate the likelihood of vivid, cognitively available risks rather than statistically likelier, but less salient, risks.

— Karl Iagnemma

I think people overestimate the risk of high-risk projects.

— Boyan Slat

Games are all about taking risks.

— James Altucher

“Boards need to master risk intelligence to identify both business risks and opportunities.”

— Pearl Zhu

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

— David L. Katz

As in the piling up of hypothetical alternatives, creative accidents follow the law of probabilities the more we fish, the more likely we are…

— Alex Faickney Osborn

There is a simple way of avoiding excess risk-taking by the managers of our financial institutions. It is to make it a crime ...…

— Paul Collier