Risks Quotes

I take risks - that's my life on the slopes and off.

~ Lindsey Vonn

Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study.

~ William Hurt

The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.

~ Charles De Gaulle

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

~ Havelock Ellis

Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.

~ Lee Iacocca

In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.

~ Tom Clancy

But we also believe in taking risks, because that's how you move things along.

~ Melinda Gates

The pilgrims on the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock. To my knowledge, they didn't wait around for a return trip to Europe. You settle some place with a purpose. If you don't want to do that, stay home. You avoid an awful lot of risks by not venturing outward.

~ Buzz Aldrin

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

~ Paulo Coelho

Without industry, finance and government consciously and collaboratively ensuring that capital flows to where it is needed in order to ensure the scaling up of climate change solutions, whatever deal is agreed risks never being realised.

~ Noreena Hertz

There are some risks we choose to take because the benefits from taking them exceed the possible costs. Optimal behavior takes risks that are worthwhile. This is the central paradigm of finance: we must take risks to achieve rewards, but not all risks are equally rewarded.

~ Robert F. Engle

Any doctor will admit that any drug can have side effects, and that writing a prescription involves weighing the potential benefits against the risks.

~ Mark Udall

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

~ Muhammad Ali

I realise that a novel and a film are different mediums. As artistes, we need to respect other artistes. It also needs a lot of courage to take risks to experiment and interpret known literary works.

~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.

~ William Hurt

I've always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks.

~ Renée Fleming

Maybe you will be afraid and maybe you will fail, but the courage to take risks in any part of your life is, I feel, a very worthwhile way to live.

~ Emile Hirsch

Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.

~ Yo-Yo Ma

Issues relating to global health and sustainability must stay high on the agenda if we are to cope with an ageing and ever-increasing population, with growing pressure on resources, and with rising global temperatures. The risks and dangers need to be assessed and then confronted.

~ Martin Rees

Around New York City, samples collected at dozens of beaches or piers have detected the types of bacteria and other pollutants tied to sewage overflows. Though the city's drinking water comes from upstate reservoirs, environmentalists say untreated excrement and other waste in the city's waterways pose serious health risks.

~ Charles Duhigg

Knowing your genetic health risks will help you make better decisions.

~ Anne Wojcicki

Drinking water that does not meet a federal health guideline will not necessarily make someone ill. Many contaminants are hazardous only if consumed for years. And some researchers argue that even toxic chemicals, when consumed at extremely low doses over long periods, pose few risks.

~ Charles Duhigg

New technologies and approaches are merging the physical, digital, and biological worlds in ways that will fundamentally transform humankind. The extent to which that transformation is positive will depend on how we navigate the risks and opportunities that arise along the way.

~ Klaus Schwab

Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor.

~ Paul Ryan

I've proven I'm courageous. I'm gutsier than anybody; I've got a better imagination than anybody; I'm essentially more creative than any other actor I know, and I've proven I take risks. I don't think I need to prove anything to myself any more.

~ Michael Keaton

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.

~ Stephen Hawking

Are we still a country that takes risks, that innovates, that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out?

~ Mitch Mcconnell

Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work force. And who gets the benefits? The benefits are only for the corporations, for the money makers.

~ César Chávez

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.

~ Bill Gates

The idea that the EU is somehow the guarantor of peace on the continent - that is in itself rash, in my view, and risks undermining the vital role of Nato.

~ Boris Johnson

I was profoundly moved to be the first United Nations Secretary-General to attend the Peace Memorial Ceremony in Hiroshima. I also visited Nagasaki. Sadly, we know the terrible humanitarian consequences from the use of even one weapon. As long as such weapons exist, so, too, will the risks of use and proliferation.

~ Ban Ki-Moon

Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.

~ Octavio Paz

Our nation was built by pioneers - pioneers who accepted untold risks in pursuit of freedom, not by pioneers seeking offshore profits at the expense of American workers here at home.

~ Ted Strickland

The global financial crisis - missed by most analysts - shows that most forecasters are poor at pricing in economic/financial risks, let alone geopolitical ones.

~ Nouriel Roubini

Pushing production out of America to nations without our environmental standards increases global environmental risks.

~ Frank Murkowski

The more democratic and open a society is, the more it's exposed to terrorism. The more a country is free, not governed by a police regime, the more it risks hijackings or massacres like the ones that took place for many years in Italy and Germany and other parts of Europe.

~ Oriana Fallaci

I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing publishers. They don't seem to want to take too many risks with living people.

~ Kenneth Anger

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Don't store unnecessary data, keep an eye on what's happening, and don't take unnecessary risks.

~ Chris Bell