“ It is easy when you are young to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough it is your God-given right to have it... I was a raw y… Jon Krakauer
“ Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk because they can put you away just as fast for a ten dollar heist as they can for a million dollar job. Stanley Kubrick
“ The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the streng… John F. Kennedy
“ So nevertheless, what I'm saying is that what one is - one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success, and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure. Jeremy Irons
“ The newly-minted captain is told to let nothing stop him but to do nothing that would risk his ship or his crew. Patrick O'Brian
“ Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve. Frank Herbert
“ The more risks you allow children to take, the better they learn to take care of themselves. If you never let them take any risks, then I believe they become very prone to injury. Boys should be allow… Roald Dahl
“ I think one can easily make a case for taking out Saddam Hussein. In fact, one could probably be made on humanitarian grounds alone. But just as there's a downside risk to doing nothing about this man… Molly Ivins
“ I think we do need to try to not just rely on the central bank to, in its wisdom, adjust interest rates, but allow for people to avoid being exposed to inflation risk. Robert J. Shiller
“ Excess dietary salt is most notorious for increasing blood pressure. Americans have a 90 percent lifetime probability of developing high blood pressure - so even if your blood pressure is normal now,… Joel Fuhrman
“ It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age. And if I had… Pope Francis
“ Life is sacrifice and risk taking, and nothing that doesn't entail some moderate amount of the former, under the constraint of satisfying the latter, is close to what we can call life. If you do not u… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Risk is the stuff that sucks the predictability right out of the very things that we desperately wish were predictable. Craig D. Lounsbrough
