Quotes about Risk

Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.

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

Technology tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. People generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can be, how it imposes severe limits on variability and thus makes whole populations fatally vulnerable to the shocking ways our universe can throw the dice.

To exist is to stand out, away from the background, The Preacher said. You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgment of your existence.

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.