Risk Quotes

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

~ Walter Anderson

Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk because they can put you away just as fast for a ten dollar heist as they can for a million dollar job.

~ Stanley Kubrick

Risk it; go for it. Life always gives you another chance, another go at it. It's very important to take enormous risks.

~ Mary Quant

We try to create a situation where we're the casino. It's like how an actuary would set insurance rates. Predictability, predictability, predictability. What's the path to least risk? What's the greater chance of getting some return on this asset?

~ Billy Beane

By now, you've heard endless warnings about the risk of short, trivial passwords. There's a good chance you ignore them.

~ Barton Gellman

Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.

~ Warren Buffett

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

~ Warren Buffett

As a country with experience of coping with earthquakes, tsunamis and other natural disasters, Japan believes in emphasizing the mainstreaming of disaster risk reduction. We therefore prioritize investment in disaster prevention and post-disaster improvements under a policy of Build Back Better (BBB).

~ Shinzo Abe

Being an entrepreneur means the ability to think out of the box by putting away our fear of any risk, including financial.

~ Ciputra

You don't want too much fear in a market, because people will be blinded to some very good buying opportunities. You don't want too much complacency because people will be blinded to some risk.

~ Ron Chernow

In 'Henry V,' the story of the assumption of true and responsible leadership by Henry I think is hard-won. He has to lose friends; he has to risk his life.

~ Kenneth Branagh

Such lifestyle factors such as cigarette smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, little physical activity and low dietary calcium intake are risk factors for osteoporosis as well as for many other non-communicable diseases.

~ Gro Harlem Brundtland

Simply switching to a healthy, plant-based diet can lessen stroke risk by reducing cholesterol and blood pressure, flooding your body with antioxidants and improving blood flow.

~ Michael Greger

Excess dietary salt is most notorious for increasing blood pressure. Americans have a 90 percent lifetime probability of developing high blood pressure - so even if your blood pressure is normal now, if you continue to eat the typical American diet, you will be at risk.

~ Joel Fuhrman

Going meat-free can make a huge difference. Studies show that vegetarians are, on average, 10 to 20 pounds lighter than meat-eaters and that a vegetarian diet reduces our risk of heart disease by 40 percent and adds seven or more years to our lifespan.

~ Ingrid Newkirk

Bitcoin is absolutely the Wild West of finance, and thank goodness. It represents a whole legion of adventurers and entrepreneurs, of risk takers, inventors, and problem solvers. It is the frontier. Huge amounts of wealth will be created and destroyed as this new landscape is mapped out.

~ Erik Voorhees

Spain is finding it very difficult to finance itself with sovereign debt risk premium so high.

~ Mariano Rajoy

We must always remember that all medical interventions have risk, and very little can be asserted with 100 percent certainty.

~ Joel Fuhrman

Courage is willingness to take the risk once you know the odds. Optimistic overconfidence means you are taking the risk because you don't know the odds. It's a big difference.

~ Daniel Kahneman

Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.

~ Paul Tillich

Believe in individual initiatives, in courage, in risk.

~ Emmanuel Macron

I'm fascinated how often and with what whole-heartedness people will risk their lives to perform acts of courage, sacrifice, and compassion for total strangers.

~ Diane Ackerman

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

The rise of childhood obesity has placed the health of an entire generation at risk.

~ Tom Vilsack

All art is an intensely vulnerable gesture, and it is made with no small amounts of risk, and fear. So, I have plenty of sympathy for self-defense mechanisms, especially among artists.

~ Steven Erikson

I praise CBS for taking a risk, which is always the price you pay for opportunity. This is not standard movie of the week storytelling. I think movies of the week have fallen into a niche and that isn't my niche.

~ Tom Selleck

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

~ Martin Luther

If we are too friendly to nice, decent bishops, we run the risk of buying into the fiction that there's something virtuous about believing things because of faith rather than because of evidence. We run the risk of betraying scientific enlightenment.

~ Richard Dawkins

I'm experimenting in public. At the design grad schools, these are people sitting around in groups, putting their work on a wall, analyzing it and putting it back in a drawer. I think there's little risk in that.

~ David Carson

The possibility that terrorist groups could obtain weapons of mass destruction should not be dismissed as a fiction. This is a horrific threat the international community should take seriously. As long as these weapons exist, so, too, does the risk of their use - by accident or design.

~ Ban Ki-Moon

Design should be easy in the sense that every step should be obviously and clearly identifiable. Simplify elements to make change simple so you can manage the technical risk.

~ Kent Beck

There is not necessarily a good reason why a regulator should have to be involved in product design and marketing for rich and sophisticated investors. We recommend that such investors should be able to sign a piece of paper, which allows them to go ahead and buy unregulated products at their own risk.

~ John Redwood

Marriage is a risk; I think it's a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.

~ Cate Blanchett

When the trust between the police and the communities they serve breaks down, everyone is at risk.

~ Eric Schneiderman

There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregnant. That can increase rates of toxoplasmosis.

~ Emily Oster

And for me, the real world involves everything: risk, danger, beauty, energy, all we meet with in the real world.

~ Christo

It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.

~ Zora Neale Hurston

It's sad to think right now, but probably the Russian and Chinese government know more about Hillary Clinton's e-mail server than do the members of the United States Congress. And - and that has put our national security at risk.

~ Scott Walker

Today, the technology is there to give early and normally ample warning when a powerful tornado approaches. When a tornado strikes, all of us are at risk.

~ Spencer Bachus

Instead of serving special interests, Congress should focus on the big picture. Globalization and technology have completely reshaped our economy in recent decades, and if we don't respond, we're putting the future of the middle class at risk.

~ John Delaney