Best 2699 quotes in «risk quotes» category

A chance is what you take before you think about it. A calculated risk is what you take after you have evaluated all possible factors and have determined that risk

A city's greatness is manifest in a people confident in their ability to take risks, to encounter

A commitment to growth is a commitment to risk, courage, faith, strength, hope, and a willingness to make mistakes, get back up and try again.

A controlled carbohydrate lifestyle really prevents risk factors for heart disease.

A country's assets reside in the tinkerers, the hobbyists, and the risk-takers.

Acting is a win-win situation. There is no risk involved. That's why I get tired of hearing actors who try to make out that there's a downside to it. Fame is an odd thing. It bugs you a little bit, but it's really not bad.

Action learning particularly obliges subjects to become aware of their own value systems, by demanding that the real problems tackled carry some risk of personal failure.

Action is about living fully. Inaction is the way that we deny life. Inaction is sitting in front of the television every day for years becuase you are afraid to be alive and to take the risk of expressing what you are. Expressing what you are is taking action.

Acting requires risk, and that's what feeling vulnerable is.

Actors take risks all the time. We put ourselves on the line. It is creative to be able to interpret someone's words and breathe life into them.

A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy.

A diet rich in fruits and vegetables plays a role in reducing the risk of all the major causes of illness and death

Admittedly, there is a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson in history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face.

A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.

Adventure without risk is Disneyland.

A failure often does not have to be a failure at all. However, you have to be ready for it-will you admit when things go wrong? Will you take steps to set them right?-because the difference between triumph and defeat, you'll find, isn't about willingness to take risks. It's about mastery of rescue.

a fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he's already got. He'll cling to trouble he's used to before he'll risk a change. Yes. A man will talk about how he'd like to escape from living folks. But it's the dead folks that do him the damage. It's the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.

A French player, Sylvain Marconnet, broke his tibia skiing in 2007 and missed his home World Cup. For me the risk of breaking something versus the reward was never worth it.

Africa's risks are mainly perceived and not real. Unfortunately for us in Africa we are not really very good at telling our own story. But things are changing and people are beginning to understand that things are going very, very well.

After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.

After taking risk into account, do more managers than you’d see by chance outperform with persistence? Virtually every economist who studied this question answers with a resounding 'no.'

A genuinely political society, in which discussion and debate are an essential technique, is a society full of risks.

A good coach encourages the same type of resilience in the people they work with. They encourage them to take risks. If the risk results in failure, they help all people to learn from the mistake and then go on to try another way.

A good starting point [in the measurement of investment risk] is the preservation and enhancement of your purchasing power in real terms.

A good saying often runs the risk of being thrown away when quoted as the speaker's own. [Fr., C'est souvent hasarder un bon mot et vouloir le perdre que de le donner pour sien.]

A good rule of thumb is to assume that everything matters.

A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We've tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a week we visit Venice High and talk to girls at risk.

Albania is at risk and we are living in difficult times.

A Leader is one who ventures and takes the risks of going out ahead to show the way and whom others follow, voluntarily, because they are persuaded that the leader's path is the right one-for them, probably better than they could devise for themselves.

A leader must face danger. He must take the risk and the blame, and the brunt of the storm.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

A leader should never risk their ability to make a difference by making an unnecessary point.

All economic activity is by definition "high risk." And defending yesterday--that is, not innovating--is far more risky than making tomorrow.

All growth, including political growth, is the result of risk-taking.

All human kingship risks a denial of the sovereignty of God.

All kinds of music comes out that I'm not prepared for. Some of it is good, some of it rubbish, but I kind of accept it all. That's the nature of stream-of-consciousness. You can't always come up with your most lucid material in the heat of the moment. I take that risk when I play live. I open up my mind, however fertile a creative springboard it is that evening.

All my characters exist in risk, in the places we are either too afraid to go to, or have enough privilege not to have to, but whatever the reason, these characters I fashion go before us and come back transformed for us. For me, at least.

All inquires carry with them some element of risk. There is no guarantee that the universe will conform to our predispositions.

All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America. And undocumented immigrants who desperately want to embrace those responsibilities see little option but to remain in the shadows, or risk their families being torn apart.

All North Koreans know the risk of all their actions. Yeonmi Park grew up in North Korea and says watching outside videos changed her perspective of the world. She says, as a child, all she learned from watching state-run media was love for the Kim regime and North Korea.

All of life is the management of risk, not its elimination.

All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.

All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.

All small returns are noise. To transcend the noise and the risk, seek outsized returns from technological paradigms.

Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk.

All the way through, we have been willing to take risks, provided at the end of it we can get a decent lasting settlement in Northern Ireland

Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasing the risk of penetration of the new intelligence apparatus by the insurgency.

All trust involves vulnerability and risk, and nothing would count as trust if there were no possibility of betrayal.

A lot of people simply don't realize their potential because they're just so risk adverse. They just don't want to take the risk.

A lot of people criticize Formula 1 as an unnecessary risk. But what would life be like if we only did what is necessary?