Risk Quotes

Take Risks in Your Life If you Win, U Can Lead! If You Lose, You can Guide!

The English follow the principle that when one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it. They keep up their lies, even at the risk of looking ridiculous.

Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame.

A risk is a chance you take; if it fails you can recover. A gamble is a chance taken; if it fails, recovery is impossible.

As a guiding principle, life shrinks and life expands in direct proportion to your willingness to assume risk.

I think it's important to evolve and grow and take risks creatively, instead of repeating yourself and doing the same thing over and over.

The biggest risk is to take no risk at all

You have the right to be involved. You have something important to contribute, and you have to take the risk to contribute it.

Western culture is what is at risk from immigration from the Middle East.

Standards should not be forced down from above but rather set by the production workers themselves.

Courage is not an ability one either possess or lacks. Courage is the willingness to engage in a risk-taking behavior regardless of whether the consequences are unknown or possibly adverse. We are capable of courageous behavior provided we are willing to engage in it. Given that life offers few guarantees, all living requires risk-taking.

For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.

Fight back! Whenever you are offered violence, fight back! The aggressor does not fear the law, so he must be taught to fear you. Whatever the risk, and at whatever the cost, fight back!

I'm not the guy who's afraid of failure. I like to take risks, take the big shot and all that.

A lot of people criticize Formula 1 as an unnecessary risk. But what would life be like if we only did what is necessary?

The real risk is not changing. I have to feel that I'm after something. If I make money, fine. But I'd rather be striving. It's the striving, man, it's that I want.

There are five freedoms: The freedom to see and hear what is; The freedom to say what you feel and think; The freedom to feel what you actually feel; The freedom to ask for what you want; The freedom to take risks on your own behalf.

The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow or love. Chained by his certitude, he is a slave; he has forfeited his freedom. Only the person who risks is truly free.

A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfed in doubt.

Great things are achieved only when we take great risks.

I should estimate that in my experience most troubles and most possibilities for improvement add up to the proportions something like this: 94% belongs to the system responsibility of management 6% special

Every time I took these bigger risks, the opportunity for a bigger payout was always there.

Fear is your worst enemy. Risk is your best friend.

What is courage? Courage is the willingness to risk failure...There is only one danger I find in life, and that, indeed, is a real one. You may take too many precautions.

Each of us has his cowardice. Each of us is afraid to lose, afraid to die. But hanging back is the way to remain a coward for life. The Way to find courage is to seek it on the field of conflict. And the sure way to victory is willingness to risk one's own life.

I’m very conscious of the fact that you can’t do it alone. It’s teamwork. When you do it alone you run the risk that when you are no longer there nobody else will do it.

If I have positions going against me, I get right out; if they are going for me, I keep them Risk control is the most important thing in trading. If you have a losing position that is making you uncomfortable, the solution is very simple: Get out, because you can always get back in.

Solidarity is based on the principle that we are willing to put ourselves at risk to protect each other.

The most important rule is to play great defense, not great offense. Everyday I assume every position I have is wrong. I know where my stop risk points are going to be. I do that so I can define my maximum drawdown. Hopefully, I spend the rest of the day enjoying positions that are going in my direction. If they are going against me, then I have a game plan for getting out.

Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense.

I've never felt that fear is my enemy. Fear is my friend. It offers me a chance to stay alert, keep growing, continue creating something new. If you don't take that sort of risk, you learn nothing.

To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control, that can lead you to be shattered in very extreme circumstances for which you were not to blame. That says something very important about the condition of the ethical life: that it is based on a trust in the uncertain and on a willingness to be exposed; it’s based on being more like a plant than like a jewel, something rather fragile, but whose very particular beauty is inseparable from that fragility.

Playing it safe and taking no risks is a shortcut to poverty

A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.

Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth).
Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.

I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.

...climate change is accelerating. It threatens our well being, our security, and our economic development. It will lead to uncontrollable risks and dramatic damage if we do not take resolute countermeasures.

Our sport is dangerous. We risk the life out there, so we need to stay calm and focused and leave all the rest out.

Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.

My first move as the manager of the machine shop was to introduce standardized work.

People aren't against you; they are for themselves. The most dangerous risk of all - the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later. He who conquers others is strong, he who conquers himself is mighty.

Courage means willing to risk everything.

Africa's risks are mainly perceived and not real. Unfortunately for us in Africa we are not really very good at telling our own story. But things are changing and people are beginning to understand that things are going very, very well.

Move fast, take risks, it's okay to try big things you're better off trying something and having it not work and learning from that than having not done anything at all.

Every time you sustain a head injury, the risk gets higher and higher. I always said that if there ever was a point where the risk was more than minimal, I would stop playing.

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

And then at the end of the day, the most important thing is how good are you at risk control. Ninety-percent of any great trader is going to be the risk control.

Successful problem solving requires finding the right solution to the right problem. We fail more often because we solve the wrong problem than because we get the wrong solution to the right problem.

Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.

You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate.