Quotes about Risk

'Twould be as much as my life was worth.

Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.

He comes here at the peril of his life, for the realization of his fixed idea. In the moment of realization, after all his toil and waiting, you cut the ground from under his feet, destroy his idea, and make his gains worthless to him. Do you see nothing that he might do, under the disappointment?

The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.

Seek opportunity, not security. A boat in the harbor is safe, but in time its bottom will rot out.

Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk. 869

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Instruction for life: Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. When you lose, don't lose the lesson. Follow the three R's: - Respect for self. - Respect for others. - Responsibility for all your actions. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.

What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

Like having a child, running a startup is the sort of experience that's hard to imagine unless you've done it yourself.