Top 1200 Great Risk Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

In 1970 I realized that there was negligible risk from x-rays but many radiographs had poor image quality so that the risk from a false negative was significant.

Unlike return, however, risk is no more quantifiable at the end of an investment that it was at its beginning. Risk simply cannot be described by a single number. Intuitively we understand that risk varies from investment to investment: a government bond is not as risky as the stock of a high-technology company. But investments do not provide information about their risks the way food packages provide nutritional data.

Let's face it, making movies is all risk. Most of the time, batting average-wise, the reward does not outweigh the risk.

If I had known my own limitations, I never would have taken the risk, and the risk led to one my greatest artistic and personal experiences.

Honesty before God requires the most fundamental risk of faith we can take: the risk that God is good, that God does love us unconditionally. It is in taking this risk that we rediscover our dignity. To bring the truth of ourselves, just as we are, to God, just as God is, is the most dignified thing we can do in this life.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

You need to put the fear of risk aside. Startups need leaders who are willing to persevere through the hard times. Failure is an option, and a real risk. Failure and risk are something entrepreneurs should understand well, and learn to manage. Don’t have a fear of talking about your failures. Don’t hide your mistakes.

We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present.

To live without risk is to risk not living.

The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.

Only when legislators judge that the risk of continuing to support Trump outweighs the risk of abandoning him will they begin to jump ship.

Getting anything off the ground is going to require a little bit of risk. That risk starts with sharing the idea.

Living is a risk," I snapped at him. "Every decision, every interaction, every step, every time you get out of bed in the morning, you take a risk. To survive is to know you're taking that risk and to not get out of bed clutching illusions of safety.

If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.

I'm a risk manager, but I'm also a risk taker.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Whenever you're in a natural system and you're making sound, you are putting yourself at risk. As you go up the evolutionary ladder, from insects to frogs to birds and on up into mammals, the higher intelligence recognizes that when you vocalize, you put yourself at risk. So mammals generally vocalize or make noise much more rarely than, let's say, insects or frogs. And when they do, and put themselves at risk, it has to be worth the risk, and have true meaning, such as signaling during a hunting party, calling in prey, some religious or spiritual ceremony, something like that.

CEOs are no different than the guy in the mailroom. They all have to learn how to manage better the risk created by our increasingly risk-shifting world.

Engaging in activities devoid of difficulty, lounging in risk-free zones, is life without great meaning.

The risk element only came from acknowledging other people's attitudes toward it, and realizing that they considered it to be a risk for me to do.

It is true that I must run a great risk; no gallant action was ever accomplished without danger.

To try to write better than you do now is to risk rejection and failure. But not to risk those things in an insult to yourself, to other writers, and to your readers.

Being in the Marine Corps and doing the job I did, there is a lot of risk involved. It made me comfortable with risk.

Space travel leading to skylife is vital to human survival, because the question is not whether we will be hit by an asteroid, but when. A planetary culture that does not develop spacefaring is courting suicide. All our history, all our social progress and growing insight will be for nothing if we perish. No risk of this kind, however small it might be argued to be, is worth taking, and no cost to prevent it is too great. No level of risk is acceptable when it comes to all or nothing survival.

Ben was a great believer in buying a diversified group of securities, so that he limited his risk.

If you don't have a voice that forces you back to basics, you're a dangerous person. Or, to put it another way, you're at risk, and the people with you are at risk.

When the image that I built around the first album was crumbling, it was scary: the risk pays off, but the resonances of that risk are not always easy to deal with.

There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.

When you risk nothing, you risk never truly living!

Take a risk a day - one small or bold stroke that will make you feel great once you have done it.

The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

A man should not risk his life for beauty alone, Kiall, for that fades. You might as well risk it for a rose. Think on it.

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

You can not achieve success without the risk of failure. If you are not afraid to fail, than you have a chance, but you are never going to get there unless you risk it.

You can try to please everyone and risk accomplishing nothing, or go for your dreams and risk pissing a few people off.

Life is all about toiling and labor. But obviously I get great joy in confronting challenge and taking risk.

I'm not a big risk-taker - being bad just wasn't worth my time or the risk of having the consequences for it. So maybe I'm a little bit lame for that.

It's easy to walk away from risk, and you don't actually have to face it. Success is based upon overcoming the inherent risk you can't manage your way out of.

Not taking a risk is a risk. That's how I see it.

Faithfulness requires the courage to risk everything on Jesus, the willingness to keep growing, and the readiness to risk failure throughout our lives.

Everything involves a risk. No risk, no reward.

It's a risk casting anyone against type or what they're known to do. But there's one thing better than having a great actor, which is having a great actor who's never done what you're asking him to do. He's hungry to get out of the trailer every day and hungry to test himself.

The great risk of being alive is always that something can happen to you - or to someone you dearly love - at any moment.

Vaccines are a miracle; they're fantastic. Anything that makes people hesitate to give their children these vaccines according to the recommended schedule creates risk. Risk for the children who don't get vaccinated and risk for children, some of whom don't have an immune system, so they're benefiting from the fact that the community protection means the disease doesn't get to them.

When you are married to a guy who takes chances every day, who loves risk and has great intuition and great business instincts - when you're married to someone like that who pushes you to dream big, you dream big.

Men of great spirit are at high risk at a time when small souls rule the world.

As Americans, we shouldn't like bailouts. Where I come from, if someone takes a risk and they're going to make the profit from that risk, they shouldn't have the taxpayer pay for the losses.

I live through risk. Without risk there is no art. You should always be on the edge of a cliff about to fall down and break your neck.

The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living.

The message is risk, really risk. Be yourself. Create.

If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Market risk is like taking a plunge into a cool pool ... a lot of people are finding out right now what their risk tolerance is.

In some industries, we refer to risk taking as 'research and development.' At financial institutions, we often take risk by investing in securities.

The most dangerous risk of all - the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.

In life, if you don't risk anything, you risk everything.

Weigh risk carefully, and once you decide a risk is manageable and necessary in the pursuit of your dreams, take it.

The state ought not to intervene to prevent individuals from doing things that not only are no risk to others but are of no risk to themselves either.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk.

The word 'risk' derives from the early Italian risicare, which means 'to dare'. In this sense, risk is a choice rather than a fate. The actions we dare to take, which depend on how free we are to make choices, are what the story of risk is all about. And that story helps define what it means to be a human being.

If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.