Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other
You have all eternity to be cautious in when you're dead.
Without danger we cannot get beyond danger.
Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
The real regrets in life are the risks you didn't take.
Are we still a country that takes risks, that innovates, that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out?
Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.
Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
There's no such thing as a sure thing. That's why they call it gambling.
Life has no romance without risk.
It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
You know, sometimes the right thing isn’t the thing you think is right. It’s the wrong thing you’re afraid to think of.
Truth is, something that I thought was perfect was taken away from me, and I never wanted perfect again. I wanted middle of the road, stuff I didn’t care about so that I couldn’t lose anything I reall...
Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study.
Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into urban warfare.
Risk always brings its own rewards: the exhilaration of breaking through of getting to the other side the relief of a conflict healed the clarity when a paradox dissolves.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing publishers. They don't seem to want to take too many risks with living people.
The global financial crisis - missed by most analysts - shows that most forecasters are poor at pricing in economic/financial risks, let alone geopolitical ones.