Best 2699 quotes in «risk quotes» category

Costs merely register competing attractions.

Courage is not an ability one either possess or lacks. Courage is the willingness to engage in a risk-taking behavior regardless of whether the consequences are unknown or possibly adverse. We are capable of courageous behavior provided we are willing to engage in it. Given that life offers few guarantees, all living requires risk-taking.

Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk of trusting God. Fear of the unknown path stretching ahead of us destroys childlike trust in the Father's active goodness and unrestricted love.

Criticism ultimately at some degree is about the writer and not the subject. It's very easy if everybody else says, "He's a genius," to echo that, but then you're not functioning as a critic or as a writer in any meaningful way. You've got to take the risk of being wrong.

Culture and, within culture, music are the best and most fascinating thing that the German capital has to offer internationally. It is putting that at risk.

Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts.

Curiosity is the essence of human existence and exploration has been part of humankind for a long time. The exploration of space, like the exploration of life, if you will, is a risk. We've got to be willing to take it.

Dare to fail. If you never fail, you're never taken risks and that's no way to take on this life.

Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk of trusting God.

Criminals look at identity theft and say only 1 in 700 criminals gets convicted of it. And they look at check forgery and they know that for every 1,400 forgers arrested, only about 123 get convicted and about 26 go to jail. So the rewards are great, but the risks are very slim. So that's one of the reasons that make it very popular.

Criticism is easier to take when you realize that the only people who aren’t criticized are those who don’t take risks.

[C]ultivated risk-taking represents an 'experiment with trust' (in the sense of basic trust) which consequently has implications for an individual's self-identity. (...) In cultivated risk-taking, the encounter with danger and its resolution are bound up in the same activity, whereas in other consequential settings the payoff of chosen strategies may not be seen for years afterwards.

Customers are wrestling with mission-critical decisions, evaluating solutions that all sound the same, and struggling to achieve the value they expect, when experience has shown them that far too many solutions come packaged with a high degree of risk and a low probability of success.

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Danger is the spice of life and you’ve got to take a risk now and then…that’s what makes life worthwhile.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

David O. Russell's best films are thrilling high wire acts that run the moment to moment risk of tumbling to the ground. In his latest, "Joy," Russell has more trouble than usual keeping his balance on the wire.

Death frames the high wire. But I don’t see myself as taking risks. I do all of the preparations that a non-death seeker would do.

Deception is a tactic: use it. Do whatever it takes to win.

Deflation and secular stagnation are the risks of our time.

Designful companies are those that weave design thinking into the fabric of the company. In a designful company, innovation is rewarded instead of punished. Risk taking is the norm instead of the exception. Some companies have already embraced this type of culture change with impressive results.

Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

Director and producers have to take all the risks they can. We developed this film with the possibility to create departing from a blank page and to discover things as the process went along and as we understood the things that at first we couldn't understand in words.

Disruption is about risk-taking. But then you become a Fortune 500 company, which is about risk mitigation

Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.

Democracy is an extraordinary adventure. It's difficult, full of daring and risk and danger. But it's the greatest gift we have.

Does not the history of the world show that there would have been no romance in life if there had been no risks?

Doing what you're afraid of, getting out of your comfort zone, taking risks like that- that's what life is.

Do not believe that living together before marriage guarantees the future. By burning certain stages, you risk burning love itself. Time needs to be respected gradually, just like the expressions of love.

Do not trust financial market risk models. Despite the predilection of some analysts to model the financial markets using sophisticated mathematics, the markets are governed by behavioral science, not physical science.

Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

Don't be hard on yourself. And take as many chances, risks, as you can. You've got to be out there adventuring with the voice. Because if you're just a singer for the sake of it, it's not quite enough.

Don’t be intimidated by other people’s opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want to do.

Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.

Don't be afraid to do something unconventional, to take a chance, to risk something.

Don't be afraid to take chances. The biggest risk is not taking any risk.

Don't listen to the malicious comments of those friends who, never taking any risks themselves, can only see other people's failures.

Don't obsess over risks. Keep your focus on positive outcomes.

Don't short many stocks. Instead they hedge for tail risk with CDS and options. They are happy to incur illiquidity

Don't stop at the first no. You have to be a risk taker. If there weren't room for creativity, the patent office would close down.

Don’t stretch yourself too much with a mortgage. Buy within your means. It’s not worth the sleepless nights.

Don't 'take care', take a risk!

Do right and risk the consequences.

Do we believe the reward found in Jesus is worth the risk of following Him?

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

Do ye want me?" he whispered. "Sassenach, will ye take me - and risk the man that I am, for the sake of the man ye knew?

Do whatever work feeds your true self, even if it’s not a safe bet, even if it’s like a crazy risk, even if everyone in your life tells you you’re wrong or bad or crazy.

Do you and I believe him (Christ) enough to obey him and to follow him wherever he leads, even when the crowds in our culture - and maybe in our churches - turn the other way?...For the sake of an increasingly marginalized and relatively ineffective church in our culture, I want to risk it all. For the sake of my life, my family, and the people who surround me, I want to risk it all.

Drake. He liked dangerous pies." "Why did he join you?" "Who would eat pie that could take over your life? Why risk it?" "Focus. Why did he join you?" "Say no to death pies. Another good motto. I'm getting a headache." p. 432

Dreaming carries no risks. The dangerous thing is trying to transform your dreams into reality.