Quotes about Risk

Sometimes following God means throwing caution to the wind. Sometimes caution is a symptom of faithlessness.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

No guts, no glory.

Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.

If the risk-reward ratio is right, you can make big money buying trouble.

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Within the first few months I discovered that being a president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

I'd rather walk than ride the airplane, I can fall on the ground flat on my face and die that way.

I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.

Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they're not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them.

In the U.S.A. or Europe there is no realistic way to estimate the type, magnitude, or probability of the risk, nor any way to narrow down the potentially affected regions.