Risks Quotes

Laisha had got a glimpse of the vast ocean that lay before her. She could either eatch it recede from her sight or plunge into it. It was not possible to take the risk of plunging headlong into the ocean. No one viewed the ocean to be drowned into it. Everyone caught only a glimpse of it, exulted in having got this farand returned home with renewed zest. The knowledge that the ocean existed was overwhelming enough. One could wallow in the idea that there was indeed a further possibility, but one merely desisted. it was not right to acknowledge that one was also frightened of it.

~ Anuradha Bhattacharyya

We stand the risk of regression, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Paul Buchheit: I'm suddenly reminded that, for a while, I asked people if they were playing Russian Roulette with a gun with a billion barrels (or some huge number, so in other words, some low probability that they would actually be killed), how much would they have to be paid to play one round? A lot of people were almost offended by the question and they'd say, I wouldn't do it at any price. But, of course, we do that everyday. They drive to work in cars to earn money and they are taking risks all the time, but they don't like to acknowledge that they are taking risks. They want to pretend that everything is risk-free.

~ Jessica Livingston

Why are so many very smart people not also rich? I guess they are too busy calculating risks rather than getting into action.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

You're different. You are the virgin who stayed.

~ Lyra Parish

Monster or not, he was risking his neck to save her.

~ Ilsa J Bick

The same products, services or technologies can fail or succeed depending on the business model you choose. Exploring the possibilities is critical to finding a successful business model. Settling on first ideas risks the possibility of missing potential that can only be discovered by prototyping and testing different alternatives.

~ Alexander Osterwalder

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

~ Mark Twain

I'm strong and fearless and not afraid to take risks in business.

~ Khloe Kardashian

Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into urban warfare.

~ Charles Krauthammer

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

~ Paul Tillich

Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

~ Gary Ryan Blair

If you're going to lead a space frontier, it has to be government; it'll never be private enterprise. Because the space frontier is dangerous, and it's expensive, and it has unquantified risks. And under those conditions, you cannot establish a capital-market evaluation of that enterprise. You can't get investors.

~ Neil Degrasse Tyson

On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?

~ Valentina Tereshkova

Private enterprise can never lead a space frontier. It's not possible because a space frontier is expensive, it has unknown risks and it has unquantified risks.

~ Neil Degrasse Tyson

'Anthony and the Magic Picture Frame' tells it like it really was in America's early space program - the adventure, the risks, and the rewards.

~ Buzz Aldrin

Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks... of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwide economic interdependence.

~ Jared Diamond

I think most astronauts are not risk takers. We take calculated risks for something that we think is worthwhile.

~ Michael J. Massimino

I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.

~ James Broughton

The two great risks are risking too much but also risking too little. That's for each person to decide. For me, not risking anything is worse than death. By far.

~ Jimmy Chin

No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.

~ Martha Beck

There's a freshness to the approach of teen chefs. They're lighthearted, and they're not afraid to take risks.

~ Alex Guarnaschelli

Journalists couldn't do their jobs overseas without taking risks, and the same is true for diplomats and intelligence officers.

~ David Ignatius

Living with fear stops us taking risks, and if you don't go out on the branch, you're never going to get the best fruit.

~ Sarah Parish

Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.

~ José Martí

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

~ Paulo Coelho

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

~ John F. Kennedy

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

~ Richard M. Nixon

Take risks. Ask big questions. Don't be afraid to make mistakes; if you don't make mistakes, you're not reaching far enough.

~ David Packard

If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

~ Neil Simon

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

~ George S. Patton

Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.

~ Waylon Jennings

I just do whatever it is that I believe I should do, regardless of the risks to my life.

~ Corazon Aquino

I don't believe in pitfalls. I believe in taking risks and not doing the same thing twice.

~ Guy Laliberte

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

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

~ Herodotus

I've always taken risks, and never worried what the world might really think of me.

~ Cher

I prefer to be alive, so I'm cautious about taking risks.

~ Werner Herzog

I like entrepreneurial people I like people who take risks.

~ Billie Jean King

Taking risks gives me energy.

~ Jay Chiat