Quotes about Risk

She said: "My Uncle Malky used to say that love was a bad bargain because you get no guarantees.

Most of the Houses have grown fat by taking few risks. One cannot truly blame them for this; one can only despise them.

You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgment of your existence.

House Corrino would not risk such a holocaust. They were undoubtedly sincere in subscribing to the argument that nuclear weapons were a reserve held for one purpose: defense of humankind should a threatening "other intelligence" ever be encountered.

The young generally are incapable of making hard decisions unless those decisions are associated with immediate violence and the consequent sharp flow of adrenalin

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Blitzscaling is always managerially inefficient - and it burns through a lot of capital quickly. But you have to be willing to take on these inefficiencies in order to scale up. That's the opposite of what large organizations optimize for.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

When you're in school, every little mistake is a permanent crack in your windshield. But in the real world, if you're not swerving around and hitting the guard rails every now and then, you're not going fast enough. Your biggest risk isn't failing; it's getting too comfortable.

I've heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance?

I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

I'd rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.